Sr. Electrical Engineer - Milpitas, CA, United States
$117,800 - $172,800 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This position is for an Electrical Engineer to support the design and development of semiconductor capital equipment. The role specifically focuses on metrology solutions essential to advanced semiconductor manufacturing within the Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) division.
What you'll do
- Perform analog and digital electrical design for prototype and production boards, including schematic capture, board bring-up, and validation.
- Own and drive board-level design activities, including power, signal integrity, and mixed-signal interfaces.
- Contribute to FPGA-based designs, including requirements definition, integration, and debug at the system level.
- Perform hands-on assembly, integration, and modification of electronic boards and sub-assemblies.
- Lead and support troubleshooting of complex board, FPGA, and system-level electrical issues on prototype and pre-production tools.
- Interface directly with external vendors to support new hardware development, assembly and integration issues, and design improvements.
What you'll need
- 5 years of related work experience with a Bachelor's Level Degree, or 3 years with a Master's Level Degree, or 0 years with a Doctorate (Academic) Degree.
- Hands-on electrical design, system integration, and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience in analog and digital electrical design for prototype and production boards.
- Experience with schematic capture, board bring-up, and validation.
- Experience with FPGA-based designs, including requirements definition, integration, and debug.
- Ability to perform hands-on assembly, integration, and modification of electronic boards and sub-assemblies.
- Experience with electrical work in the clean room on prototype tools, including installation, powerup, performance validation, and debug.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience in semiconductor capital equipment or a similar complex electro‑mechanical industry.
- Experience in design and ownership of mixed‑signal PCBs and system-level electrical interfaces.
- Strong understanding of system integration, including signal integrity and grounding.
- Experience with FPGA or embedded interfaces, including system-level debugging.
- Ability to support design validation through hands-on work on prototype tools.
Skills: electrical design, semiconductor capital equipment, board-level design, system integration, FPGA-based designs
This role has been open 6 days — well below the 53-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3718
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (3718 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 253 | 3718 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 454 | 9796 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 66 d | 53 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Skills observed across this category: electrical design, semiconductor capital equipment, board-level design, system integration, FPGA-based designs
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 613 open roles · median 52 d
- Lam Research · 545 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 269 open roles · median 44 d
- KLA Corporation (this employer) · 254 open roles · median 66 d
- ASML · 198 open roles · median 64 d
- ASM International · 157 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 3718 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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 Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.