Algorithm Engineer
KLA · Leuven, Belgium
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.
Senior Algorithm Engineer
Join the team that builds the "Vision Engine" serving as the core processing unit for all our inspection tools. By using groundbreaking technology both in hardware and software we can deliver the best performing algorithm and applications to all our customers. Since a few years we are also building up expertise within machine learning to further improve our capabilities to solve customer problems.
Job Description:
Be part of and become responsible to work out new differentiating vision solutions for our tools. Combining sophisticated software algorithms with in-house embedded and off the shelf hardware to make an outstanding product. The growing need for differentiating visual inspection solutions in the high-end markets we serve will allow you to further grow within this position, so you can strengthen your skills and work on the most inspiring programs.
Your work involves:
- Crafting and developing software for new inspection challenges based on requirements and available information from the customer.
- Supporting your colleagues in providing them tools to work efficiently and drive improvements of our in-house hybrid development environment.
- Collaborating with other software teams on how new inspection flows can easily be validated and used in our inspection machines.
- Support our field engineers and APPS division with the whole process flow of working with the vision system and all our applications.
- Occasional travel to support customers and to have firsthand insights.
Minimum Qualifications
Qualifications
- Background in Engineering or Computer Science with experience of 3-5 years. We need your passion for technology and desire to learn every single day!
- Actual experience in C/C++ programming, code profiling and refactoring is highly recommended.
- Experience working both in a Windows and Linux environment. Knowledge of container technology (Eg podman) is a plus.
- Familiar with scripting languages (Bash,Python) and understanding version control and Makefiles is preferable.
- Eager to stay ahead by following new trends in software/hardware development and experimenting with new frameworks and Computer Vision packages.
- Not afraid to stretch your boundaries for further growth and use your analytical skills to drive efficiency.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Proficient in English
About KLA
We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.
Use of AI Statement
At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.
We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.
KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.