Software Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

KLA-Tencor Corporation, a leading provider of process control and yield management solutions, partners with customers around the world to develop state-of-the-art inspection and metrology technologies. These technologies serve the semiconductor, data storage, LED, and other related nanoelectronics industries. With a portfolio of industry-standard products and a team of world-class engineers and scientists, the company has created superior solutions for its customers for more than 35 years. Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., KLA-Tencor has dedicated customer operations and service centers around the world. Additional information may be found at www.kla-tencor.com.

Job Description

1. Acquire and demonstrate technical knowledge of Common Film Shape software.
    2. Perform requirements analysis, software design, development and unit testing
    3. Participate in requirements definition and review process. Provide Technical assessment of the impact of any changes to product requirements.
    4. Providing technical expertise to the estimation process as input to the project plan
    4. Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Optical Film/CD Metrology
    5. Follow KT defined software development processes (CMM)
    6. Lead small teams to develop key features.
    7. Understand and make changes to existing software.
    8. In conjunction with the technical Lead, highlights, reviews and mitigates technical risks
    9. Contributes to the continued improvement of the organisation?s development procedures, by looking for opportunities for improvement and proposing ideas for solution.
    10.Ensuring that detailed designs, code, and unit tests, are consistent, robust, future-proof and scalable.

Qualifications

1. Required: BE/BS/BTech degree with 6 or more years of SW experience.
    2. Required: Strong in programming fundamentals, C++, VC++, MFC and COM
    3. Required: Thorough knowledge of SDLC and software engineering
    4. Required: Experience in analysis, design, development and unit testing
    5. Required: Must be able to interact and communicate with all levels of staff and project management in both the business and the technical areas, with the ability to keep discussions at the appropriate level of abstraction.
    6. Required: Possess excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational, interpersonal, and motivational skills, with the ability to move cleanly from theoretical to implementation thinking.
    6. Required: Willingness to travel to US and other customer places on short assignments.
    7. Preferred: Experience in developing COM/DCOM using MFC/ATL
    8. Preferred: Experience in .Net and C#
    9. Preferred: Knowledge in STL, Boost Library and Windows Internals.
    10. Preferred: Experience in defining requirements, leading project teams
    11.Preferred: Experience leading teams or potential to grow into a lead engineer in an years time
    12.Optional: Knowledge of CMM or other process models
    13.Optional: Knowledge of KT specific or general semiconductor domain