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# Sr. System Design Engineer (DUV, VUV plasma sources)

- **Company:** KLA-Tencor
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,200.0 - $316,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, SolidWorks (CAD), LabVIEW, Creo
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://kla.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Search/job/Milpitas-CA/Sr-System-Design-Engineer--DUV--VUV-plasma-sources-_2640533-1

## About the Role

* Development of next generation DUV and VUV plasma sources for BBP.
 * Expertise in lasers, plasma, light generation, vacuum, high pressure and clean HW development.
 * Experience in developing complex opto-mechanical, laser and thermal systems.
 * LabView and mechanical SW (SolidWorks, CAD, CREO) skills are highly desired.
 * The ideal candidate should have a PhD of 10+ years , MS degree of 12+ years, or BS degree of 15+ years experience., PhD + 3 years , MS + 6 years , Bachelor + 8 years

## Description

The candidate will have a lead role in next generation product development, from technology evaluation and selection, specifications development, product validation and verification. Responsibilities will include execution of experiments and simulations to predict candidate system performance and leading a team in trade-off studies required to make major architecture decisions on complex systems. The candidate will be responsible for top level system specifications and flow down to subsystem and component level specifications, system error budgets, interface definition, calibrations, and diagnostics. The candidate must be effective at leading a team of engineers to achieve program goals.


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