Purpose of the Role

This role represents an exciting opportunity for graduate scientists or engineers who want to build a career in a fast-growing, award-winning global semiconductor company. You will gain hands-on experience across the full operations lifecycle, contribute to cutting-edge technology, and follow a clearly defined development path where continued learning, new ideas, and growing responsibility are encouraged and rewarded.

Company Introduction

Following the Company's extensive onboarding and introduction program, you will join our Graduate Development program, which includes Technical Classroom training, Soft-skills training, Team building, corporate responsibility activities, and finally placement across all of our operations and process teams. It is not required for you to already have the skills and knowledge to perform the role; full on-the-job training will be provided through our graduate development scheme. You will then be welcomed into your Team and continue your development supported by your KLA mentor!

Your Experiences Will Include

• Working at the heart of a world-class semiconductor manufacturing operation, collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, operations, and quality teams to develop innovative solutions that bring advanced technology to life.
• Playing a hands-on role in launching next-generation products, contributing to New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, and helping transform cutting-edge designs into robust manufacturing solutions used by customers around the world.
• Gaining exposure across the full product lifecycle, from development and manufacturing through to sustaining engineering and the global installed base, helping improve product performance, reliability, and customer experience.
• Solving real engineering challenges, using structured problem-solving, data analysis, and industry-leading tools to investigate issues, identify opportunities, and drive meaningful improvements.
• Contributing to quality and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance safety, quality, delivery, and operational excellence across a fast-paced, high-technology manufacturing environment.
• Accelerating your professional development by working alongside experienced specialists, sharing ideas, presenting your findings, building strong relationships, and taking increasing ownership of challenging and rewarding projects.

KLA is Proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

For This Role We Are Looking For Someone Who

• Has a passion for learning and development, continuously seeking new knowledge and learning opportunities.
• Can think logically to provide internal customer solutions with good attention to detail, foresight, and ability to collect, filter, and analyze data to build solutions for complex technological problems.
• Has the ability to think creatively of novel but practical solutions to internal customer problems.
• Is able to demonstrate strong communication skills – You’ll enjoy establishing and maintaining good working relationships with both customers and colleagues.

Your Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree (2:1) in Engineering Discipline.
• Applicants with a Masters or prior experience of studies within the semiconductor industry would be desirable but certainly not a must.
• A good acquaintance with SW tools (MS Office, MATLAB) would be advantageous.

What We Will Offer You

KLA's benefits package includes: Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus bank holidays), contributory pension scheme, cash health plan, cycle to work scheme, global bonus plan, share scheme, rewards scheme, life assurance, generous shift allowance, and overtime premiums.

Minimum Qualifications

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.