Customer Engagement Applications Engineer
About the role
What You'll Do
In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.
As a Field Applications Engineer at KLA, you will serve as the trusted technical leader and primary interface between KLA and our customers, driving successful deployment, adoption, and competitive differentiation of KLA's overlay metrology solutions. This role requires a self‑motivated engineer with strong technical depth, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead complex customer engagements independently.
- Serve as the primary technical interface between KLA and customer
- Deliver applications support for KLA's overlay metrology tools at customer fabrication facilities.
- Lead customer engagements including product evaluations, new tool introductions, and drive competition.
- Drive customer success by conducting acceptance tests, recipe development, hands-on training, and pre-sales technical enablement.
- Cultivate strong customer relationships by understanding their technical needs, aligning solutions, and ensuring satisfaction through onsite support.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to co-author technical papers and present at global industry symposiums.
- Develop and share Best Known Methods (BKMs), SOP ( Standard Operating Procedures ) materials, and technical documentation to empower global Field Applications teams.
- Act as a cross-functional bridge, aligning customer feedback with engineering, sales, and marketing to drive continuous improvement.
- Analyze complex technical issues, apply statistical methods, and deliver innovative, data-driven solutions.
- Report regional insights and escalate field issues to product divisions, ensuring timely resolution and product evolution
Minimum Qualifications
About KLA
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