Technical Engagement Manager (Overlay)
$127,900 - $217,400 USD yearly
Lead customer technical engagement and applications engineering for KLA Archer imaging and ATL scatterometry overlay metrology systems.
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As Technical Engagement Manager for overlay metrology, you will own KLA's overlay engagement at a strategic account and lead an on-site team of Customer Engagement Applications Engineers. The account runs advanced logic and DRAM on one site, requiring ownership across tool install, acceptance, qualification, and high-volume ramp.
What you'll do
- Define and execute the account strategy for KLA overlay metrology (Archer imaging-based overlay and ATL scatterometry-based overlay), driving product penetration, share, and adoption.
- Serve as the primary technical owner for overlay programs, defining sampling and control strategies (inline sampling, correction per exposure, dense sampling on critical layers, scanner feedback) for logic and DRAM.
- Translate customer sampling plans into tool throughput and attach-rate models to support high-volume tool forecasting, quotes, and booking plans.
- Collaborate with the OMD product division, marketing, applications, engineering, Service, and Sales to align roadmaps, close escalations, and lead technical reviews.
- Hire, mentor, and lead on-site Customer Engagement applications engineers while driving best known methods and technical knowledge transfer.
What you'll need
- Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field.
- 5 to 10 years of semiconductor fab, process control, or capital equipment experience, including overlay metrology or lithography process control.
- Experience leading engineers or cross-functional technical programs.
- Customer-facing technical engagement and escalation resolution experience.
- Willingness to work on-site in a cleanroom environment and travel to KLA divisions in the US and Israel.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of image-based and diffraction-based overlay, target design, sampling optimization, high-order and per-exposure modeling, scanner corrections, and APC.
- Hands-on experience with KLA Archer and/or ATL platforms and KLA patterning analytics such as 5D Analyzer.
- EUV and multi-patterning experience at advanced logic nodes, or DRAM overlay experience.
- Experience taking a new fab or node from R&D through high-volume ramp.
Skills: overlay metrology, Archer, ATL, scatterometry, lithography
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 88-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Metrology Inspection
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Open roles in category
130
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Median days open
88 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$132k
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| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (130 roles · 8 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 95 | 130 |
| Median days open | 74 d | 88 d (−14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $132k |
Skills observed across this category: overlay metrology, Archer, ATL, scatterometry, lithography
Who's hiring in this category
- KLA Corporation (this employer) · 95 open roles · median 81 d
- Onto Innovation · 20 open roles · median 110 d
- Applied Materials · 4 open roles · median 67 d
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- Micron Technology · 3 open roles · median 88 d
- Veeco Instruments · 2 open roles · median 103 d
How we counted: 130 open Applications FAE (Metrology Inspection) roles from 8 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.