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Company OverviewKLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/DivisionThe KLA Services team headquartered in Milpitas, CA is our service organization that consists of Service Sales and Marketing, Spares Supply Chain management, Field Operations, Engineering, Product Training, and Technical Support. The KLA Services organization partners with our field teams and customers in all business sectors to maintain the high performance and productivity of our products through a flexible portfolio of services. Our comprehensive services include: proactive management of tools to identify and improve performance; expertise in optics, image processing and motion control with worldwide service engineers, 24/7 technical support teams and knowledge management systems; and an extensive parts network to ensure worldwide availability of parts.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
Embed with KLA teams – including teams where nobody has written a line of code – and map their highest-friction workflows to AI-automatable solutions
Ship production agent systems within weeks of starting an engagement; iterate with the team until the system is stable and trusted
Build executive and business-facing AI tools: email summarization, meeting prep, action item tracking, cross-document intelligence, and presentation assembly from source data
Build agent wrappers around existing data infrastructure without rewriting source systems
Help build internal AI infrastructure that removes friction and makes every employee at KLA more effective with AI – not just the technical ones
Design reusable patterns and components that accelerate every future deployment – what you build once should make the next deployment faster
Build integration layers that connect enterprise tools into unified AI-ready environments for non-technical users
Identify and train the local AI champion on every engagement – transfer ownership completely and leave a written playbook
Contribute implementation patterns and best-known-methods to the team’s internal library for citizen developer enablement
Stay ahead of the model and tooling frontier: track releases from major providers and the agentic orchestration ecosystem, and bring what’s relevant back to the team

Qualifications
Master’s Level Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
1+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML systems or data-intensive applications (strong new grads with demonstrated projects considered)
Strong programming skills in Python; experience with SQL and data pipeline tooling
Hands-on experience with LLM APIs and agentic orchestration frameworks
Experience building RAG systems, document ingestion pipelines, and experimenting with model harnesses
Experience or strong interest in building plugin architectures, skill distribution systems, or extensible tool platforms
Ability to work across cloud and on-pre