System engineer - Multidisciplinary Project Lead

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology. Group/Division The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards to enable technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics. 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. Responsibilities Technical and Project Leadership & Ownership Manage multidisciplinary projects in the RnD as part of the engineering system organization Translate business and customer requirements into detailed system and subsystem requirements. Lead system architecture decisions and technical trade-off evaluations. Serve as the system requirements gatekeeper and ensure consistency across disciplines. Drive technical decision-making and maintain alignment between product goals and engineering execution.  Product Delivery Own the engineering development plan for the product. Lead multi-disciplinary execution across System, HW, SW, Algorithms, Process, Applications, and Manufacturing. Manage product integration, qualification, and readiness for alpha, beta, and customer releases. Track progress, identify gaps, and drive corrective actions to meet program objectives. Ensure the product meets performance, quality, and reliability specifications.  System Integration & Validation Plan and lead system integration activities across development teams. Verify compliance with system requirements and customer expectations. Define calibration flows and system verification approaches. Support validation, qualification, and customer acceptance activities. Lead root-cause analysis for complex technical and performance issues.  Technical Risk Management Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation plans. Lead design reviews, risk reviews, and technical progress meetings. Facilitate decision-making across disciplines when priorities or technical opinions diverge. Own system-level issue resolution and escalation management. Drive continuous improvement of engineering and system-development processes.  Stakeholder Management Act as the primary engineering interface to…