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# Applications Development Engineer

- **Company:** KLA-Tencor
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $204,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Software Engineering, Beta Testing, Data Analytics
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://kla.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Search/job/Milpitas-CA/Applications-Development-Engineer_2639481

## About the Role

Doctorate (Academic) or work experience of 0 years , Master's Level Degree or work experience of 2 years , Bachelor's Level Degree or work experience of 3 years

## Description

Work closely with division different organizations including engineering, sales and marketing within K-T and with customer engineers outside K-T and provide high level applications support of precise metrology systems.

Product development:

Characterize next generation optical thin film measurement products.

Design test plans, collect and analyze data, publish results and recommendations in the form of applications notes, best known methods.

Form training materials and transfer new production knowledge and application capabilities to worldwide apps support team.

Work closely with division system and algo team and be creative to develop software offline tools for data analysis, feature development.

Customer support:

Manage head-to-head (H2H) activities at customer sites and in-house customer demonstration. Conduct new tool demonstrations to showcase tool performance and develop use cases to help drive tool sales.

Design experiments to characterize tool/subcomponent performance, demonstrate product value in alpha testing, beta testing and pilot tool support in the ramp phase, thereby enabling product penetration/adoption at customer facilities at customers site.

Develop recipes to model complex optical applications and optimize tool performance;

Provide escalation support to onsite field service engineer; leading and coordinating remote/local troubleshooting


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