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Product Development Engineer

KLA Corporation

Totowa, NJFull-time$100–146K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$100–146K/yr
Location
Totowa, NJ
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Master's degree

Job overview

The Product Development Engineer supports wafer inspection tools throughout the product life cycle, from defining customer requirements and evaluating technologies to validation, manufacturing transfer, and customer ramp. The role also develops product enhancements and cost-reduction improvements, and helps conceptualize and test next-generation devices for chemical analysis. It includes coordinating tool use and schedules, maintaining systems, and diagnosing and resolving system issues.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

MATLABJMPLabVIEWStatistical Data AnalysisFluidic TroubleshootingOpto-Spectrometric SystemsMechanical SystemsElectromechanical SystemsMotion Control SystemsSoftware Structure and ExecutionTechnical Report PreparationTechnical PresentationsFiber-Optic SystemsFluidic SystemsSoftware and Control SystemsSystem Interactions

Qualifications

Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or Related Field

Full job description

Minimum Education Required

Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field (or foreign equivalent).

Compensation

$100,256.00 - $145,500.00 / Yearly

Hours Per Week

40

Number Of Positions

1

Shift

First Shift (Day)

Job Description

Play a central role throughout the different phases of the product life cycle for wafer inspection tools. Understand customers’ use-case and work with groups to define the requirements. Responsible for technology evaluation and selection, specifications development, requirements analysis, product validation, verification, transfer to manufacturing, and support of customer ramp. Develop and release new options, features or cost reduction improvements that provide value to internal and external customers. Release and support product enhancements

effectively. Participate in theoretical evaluation on capabilities of available technologies, identification of gaps and definition of the actions required to close those gaps. Maintain and coordinate daily schedules, prioritize system usage, and support all functions of the tool which include weekly health checks, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair, system calibrations, upgrades, revision control, testing, debugging and data analysis of measurement performance. Complete the initial diagnosis of any system issue. Work in the Engineering Technology team to conceptualize, develop, and test the next generation of devices which will be used to advance chemical analysis technology. Salary range: $100,256 - $145,500 per year.

Job site: 60 Gordon Dr. Totowa NJ, 07512

Minimum requirements: Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field (or foreign equivalent).

Special Requirements: Position requires experience or education in each of the following skills:

  1. MATLAB, JMP, or LabVIEW;

  2. Statistical data analysis;

3.Trouble shooting skills in fluidic dispensing and handling, opto-spectrometric systems, mechanical, electro-mechanical, motion control systems, and software structure and execution;

  1. Technical reports preparation and presentation to various audience; and

  2. Mechanical, Fiber-optic, Fluidic, and Electromechanical and Software and Control systems and their interactions in the context of complex industrial equipment.

Qualified applicants, please email resume to [email protected]. Must reference job title (Product Development Engineer) and job code (PDEYLNJ).

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

PDEYLNJ

Job Type

Full Time

Application Email

[email protected]

How this job compares

Set against the 468 open Product Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$100–146K/yr
  • US median$102–164K/yr273 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $123K, is 4% below the US median midpoint ($128K) — in the middle half of Product Development Engineer salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 468 open Product Development Engineer jobs across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Product Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (363 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a master's degree; 8 of the 468 open Product Development Engineer jobs (2%) ask for a master's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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