Software Engineer

Software Engineer

KLA's Global Products Group (GPG) is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to our Surfscan group. This is a crucial role for an engineer passionate about designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining software features for large semiconductor products. You'll tackle complex problems, ensure robust and scalable designs, and collaborate with multi-site and cross-functional teams to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain software features for large semiconductor products.
• Interact with multi-site team members (India & USA) along with non-software teams during different phases of the software product life cycle.
• Work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Ensure that detailed designs, code, and unit tests are consistent, robust, future-proof, and scalable.
• Understand and make design and architectural improvements on existing software.
• Participate in requirements definition and review process.
• Provide technical assessment of the impact of any changes to product requirements.
• Provide technical expertise to the estimation process as input to the project plan.
• In conjunction with the Technical Manager, identify, highlight, review, and mitigate technical risks.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of the organization's development procedures, by looking for opportunities for improvement and proposing ideas for solutions.

Skills

• Strong development experience on C++/C++11/C under Linux.
• Good understanding of Linux Operating System Concepts.
• Proven experience in using UML, OOP, and OOD design methodologies is highly relevant.
• Strong fundamentals on Data structures and algorithms.
• Good understanding of multi-threading, multicore programming concepts is a must.
• Good knowledge of Linux operating system internals like file system, threads, processes, IPC.
• Creative, result-oriented, disciplined, highly motivated, and able to work well individually and as part of a global team (India, USA, field, etc.) and understand all phases of software engineering.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Good Communication, Interpersonal skills, and Team coordination skills are required.
• Quick learner, problem analysis, and solving ability are essential.
• Good understanding of using STL, Boost library (plus).
• Experience in Python and Linux shell scripting (big advantage).
• Troubleshooting experience using GDB (added advantage).
• VC++ Windows experience (plus).
• Preferred exposure/experience with technologies namely Kubernetes, Docker, containers, virtualization techniques and technologies.
• Experience with Messaging Framework such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, or NATS (preferred).
• In-depth knowledge of Python scripting (preferred).
• Good Understanding of High-Performance Container Networking (preferred).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Electronics / Electrical or equivalent field; or Master's degree in Computer Science / Electronics / Electrical or equivalent field.