Product Engineer - RAPID - Milpitas, CA, United States
$117,800 - $172,800 USD yearly
Originally posted 12 October 2026 by the employer.
Focus on advancing business priorities related to reticle profile and EUV tools.
About the role
This role involves advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work as a central technical resource interfacing with various departments throughout the product life cycle. You will act as an expert on subsystems within reticle profile.
What you'll do
- Serve as the central technical resource/interface with design engineering, manufacturing, technical support, quality, marketing, and field as products move through the Product Life Cycle.
- Act as the expert on several subsystems within reticle profile, driving corrective and preventive design-influencing actions.
- Optimize serviceability, reduce cost-of-service, and improve product service performance through all stages of the Product Life Cycle.
- Drive continuous improvement of system hardware, diagnostics, software, tooling, technical documentation, knowledge management, and training.
- Influence early Product Life Cycle designs to optimize KLA's service business with features like calibrations, diagnostics, Cost of Service (CoS), reliability, and design tolerances.
- Participate in beta and sustaining escalation efforts, analyzing data to provide detailed action plans for Customer Service Engineers and Technical Support Engineers.
What you'll need
- Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years.
- Consistent track record to work on sophisticated problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
- Results oriented and driven to excel.
- Strong analytic and data analysis skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work efficiently in multidisciplinary, multicultural teams and to take a leadership role when needed.
Nice to have
- Hands on experience with EUV tools or semiconductor processing equipment.
- Reticle equipment experience.
- Background developing and delivering remote technical training applying virtual reality, augmented reality and video.
Skills: product life cycle, serviceability, cost-of-service, reticle profile, EUV tools, technical documentation
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 77-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
151
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Median days open
77 d
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Median salary
$170k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (151 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 151 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 7 | 2224 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 59 d | 77 d (−18 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $170k |
Skills observed across this category: product life cycle, serviceability, cost-of-service, reticle profile, EUV tools, technical documentation
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 12 open roles · median 48 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 168 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 77 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 159 d
- Entegris · 9 open roles · median 85 d
- Marvell Technology · 7 open roles · median 29 d
How we counted: 151 open Product Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.