Senior Director - Strategic Marketing (Surfscan Group Portfolio)

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Kla · Milpitas, CA

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KLA seeks a technology leader to lead strategic marketing for the Surfscan portfolio, collaborating closely with R&D and customers. This new role combines strategic marketing with advanced technology development, focusing on guiding long-term R&D, technology roadmaps, and future product architectures. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of semiconductor process control and position the successful candidate for potential advancement into a Business Unit Manager role. The Surfscan group encompasses a diverse and innovative set of technologies, including: Unpatterned Wafer Inspection : Industry-leading platforms such as the SPx series for surface defect detection and quality assurance. Shape Metrology : Advanced solutions for measuring wafer shape across both patterned and unpatterned substrates. Chemical Metrology : Precision tools for monitoring and controlling electroplating, etch, and clean chemistries. Specialty Instruments : Inspection and metrology systems tailored for niche substrates and benchtop applications in industrial and academic settings. The group is powered by a multidisciplinary team of physicists, chemists, engineers, data scientists, and business professionals, all working together to deliver breakthrough solutions to the semiconductor ecosystem.

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Company Overview KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world's leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us. Group/Division With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA's metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The Surfscan group includes a team of engineers, technology development, apps engineers and product marketing focused on technology that enables wafer, IC and equipment manufacturers to develop, qualify and monitor their process tools. Defects and process non-uniformities detected on Surfscan equipment allow for early identification of yield excursions. The flagship Surfscan products include the SPx platforms for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools and systems for inspection of polished wafers, epi wafers and engineered substrates during the wafer fabrication process. Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

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