Job Title: Senior Electronic Design Engineer
Location: Milpitas, CA
Position: Full time
Business Unit
KT Labs is an established enterprise within the KLA-Tencor family where the focus is squarely on technical innovation beyond tomorrow's needs. Where other members of the KT community strive to meet our customer's technical needs for today's and tomorrow's designs, we at KT Labs look to their needs, meet with the advance R&D groups at customer's sites, envision and realize solutions far beyond today's needs. It is this combination of technical challenges; our mission to evolve visionary solutions for our customer's that generates KT Labs' teams' greatest satisfaction. We solve the very difficult problems quickly. It is only the impossible that takes a bit more time. The AR&D group, as part of KT labs, develops technologies through phase 2 for charge particle and surface analysis applications at KLA-Tencor.
Responsibilities
Contribute to system level architecture design and test planning.
Design and test electronic modules and test fixtures.
Test complex, high-speed (up to 500 MHz) circuit boards, subsystems, and integrate and test systems of well over 100 boards.
Conduct design reviews of own designs, and prepare specification documents and test plans.
Work with parts and service vendors as needed to implement designs.
Perform FPGA coding in Verilog for electronics boards.
Preferred Qualifications
Able to integrate electronic subsystems with mechanical and optical systems and perform system tests.
A good working knowledge of analog and digital electronic design.
Ability to collaborate with other technical staff and share ideas regarding complex systems
Ability to design circuits to demanding specifications of noise level, bandwidth, and linearity.
Experience writing FPGA programs (at least 1500 lines per program) in AHDL and/or Verilog.
Skilled at writing programs (of at least 3000 lines) in C++.
Experience with image acquisition or image processing. (desired)
Experience with MatLab.
Minimum Qualifications
Doctorate (Academic) with at least 3 years of electronics experience. OR Master's Level Degree with at least 6 years of electronics experience. OR Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 8 years of electronics experience.