Senior Regional Development Applications Engineer (Capres) – Regional (Taiwan/Asia)

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

Group/Division

The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards to enable technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

Position Overview

We are looking for a senior Applications Development Engineer to join our global CAPRES team, responsible for supporting customers across Asia, including Taiwan, with a primary focus on leading logic and memory customers alongside other key regional accounts.

In this role, you will drive strategic application engagement, customer coordination, and regional application direction for advanced electrical and magnetic metrology solutions. Working closely with technical engagement leadership, regional teams, and CAPRES headquarter, you will help define customer priorities, guide application activities, and ensure alignment between customer needs, regional execution, and future product direction.

A key part of this role is to drive new customer penetration across the region. In parallel, you will increase adoption at existing customers by enabling new applications and expanding use cases, thereby increasing tool utilization and supporting additional tool demand.

This position also offers the opportunity to grow into a regional leadership role, including potential future responsibility for leading a team of application engineers.

Job Description

• • Drive strategic application engagement across Asia, including Taiwan, with primary focus on leading logic and memory customers and selected key regional accounts
  • Define and coordinate application strategies, evaluation priorities, and customer support plans in alignment with business objectives and customer requirements
  • Support new customer penetration and increase adoption at existing customers by identifying, developing, and promoting new applications and extended use cases
  • Act as a senior technical interface for customers, providing high-level application guidance, escalation support, and technical coordination across multiple engagements
  • Guide and support regional application engineers in the execution of on-site evaluations, application deployment, troubleshooting, and use case implementation
  • Capture customer requirements, technical challenges, and future technology needs, and translate them into clear recommendations for CAPRES headquarter regarding tool and software improvements
  • Coordinate cross-functional activities between customers, regional teams, and CAPRES headquarter to ensure effective execution and alignment of application priorities
  • Provide technical leadership within the regional team, including mentoring, knowledge sharing, and driving consistency in application approach and quality
  • Contribute to regional engagement planning by helping prioritize opportunities, customer focus areas, and application development direction

Preferred Qualifications

• • Extensive experience in semiconductor CMOS manufacturing, with strong exposure to advanced logic and memory applications
  • Experience working with leading logic semiconductor manufacturers in Asia, preferably in Taiwan
  • Deep knowledge of electrical and magnetic metrology techniques, including sheet resistance measurements, CIPT, MOKE and FMR.
  • Strong background in customer-facing roles, including technical leadership, engagement coordination, and strategic account support
  • Demonstrated ability to drive adoption growth and new customer penetration through application-driven strategies
  • Proven ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders and translate customer needs into regional application priorities and product recommendations
  • Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities

• Minimum Qualifications

  • Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience; or
  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field with 6 years of relevant experience; or
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience, including experience in semiconductor manufacturing
  • Strong understanding of semiconductor applications, device characterization, and process integration
  • Solid expertise in electrical and magnetic metrology and data analysis methodologies
  • Ability to independently solve complex technical challenges and define effective application strategies
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, including interaction with senior customer stakeholders
  • Direct customer exposure in Taiwan and/or major semiconductor accounts in Asia
  • Fluency in Mandarin (Chinese) and English, both spoken and written

Minimum Qualifications

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.