Software Engineer (C#, .NET, C++) in Newport

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centres, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials.

KLA Instruments™ is our instrumentation division, which designs advanced metrology and inspection instruments used in both R&D and production across industries and academia. Our tools—ranging from optical profilers and nano-indenters to thin film and defect inspection systems—enable precise surface and material analysis. We partner closely with customers to enable R&D, improve yield, optimise processes, and reduce production costs through innovative hardware, software and application expertise.

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

KLA 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 significantly invest in 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 hard problems. There’s never a dull moment with us.

KLA Instruments is passionate about the development of state-of-the-art inspection and metrology equipment used in production and research and development environments. Our organization is globally located with resources in the US, Europe, and Asia. We provide critical cost-effective solutions for power electronics, LED, communications, automotive, data storage, and other related nanoelectronics and materials science applications. We partner with our customers to provide state-of-the-art hardware and software to improve yield and lower overall production costs by supplying world-leading inspection, metrology and review systems.

As a Software Engineer on this team, you will design, develop, release, and support software for our families of surface profiler, thin film, sheet resistance and nanoindentation measurement instruments, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and the latest advancements in software engineering and AI/ML/DL. This role combines software development with hands-on DevOps: you will help own the CI/CD pipelines, build and release automation, and development infrastructure that deliver our software to customers.

• Deliver well-defined features/components with high-level guidance: estimate work, communicate risks/tradeoffs, and deliver on schedule.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across the development lifecycle to define architecture and create system- and subsystem-level requirements/specifications.
• Implement and debug multithreaded code and support integration across system/subsystem boundaries (including hardware/software interfaces).
• Develop C#/.NET and C++ software for GUI and data analysis; write maintainable code and use AI-assisted tools responsibly under company security policies.
• Build robust unit/integration tests, automate them in CI/CD pipelines, and use profiling to improve performance, memory usage, reliability, and security.
• Participate in design reviews and incorporate feedback from stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Troubleshoot system/subsystem issues using logs and experiments; contribute to root-cause analysis, implement fixes with guidance, and help prevent recurrence.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated build/test/release workflows, and development infrastructure so software is delivered reliably and repeatably.
• Demonstrate motivation to independently learn and apply new software technologies.
• Occasional domestic and international travel, including to the United States, may be required as part of this role.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (required) with significant relevant experience; Master’s or advanced degree with experience in Software, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or Physics.
• A solid understanding and demonstrated track record in the practice of software engineering fundamentals, including architecture, data structures, design patterns, event-driven design, multithreaded design, testing, and debugging.
• Experience with Microsoft .NET languages including VB.NET and C#.
• C++ programming.
• Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.
• DevOps practices and tools, including source control (Git), CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins), build/release automation, and scripting (e.g., PowerShell or Python).
• Adherence to software design and coding standards.
• Ability to communicate effectively with peers, interdisciplinary engineering groups, customers, and suppliers, including delivering clear technical presentations.
• Adept at collaborating with teams across the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Self-driven individual with strong technical ability, a systematic approach, and excellent problem-solving skills.

Preferred:

• Experience contributing to architecture and design for complex subsystems and influencing technical decisions through strong design and code reviews.
• Experience improving performance and diagnostics/observability for system-level software.
• Experience collaborating across teams on system integration and software releases for complex systems, including release management and deployment automation.
• Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker), infrastructure as code, cloud platforms (Azure or AWS), and monitoring of build and test environments.
• Experience delivering AI/ML capabilities in products.
• UX skills including wireframing, prototyping, and user flow design.

KLA 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, and life assurance.

About KLA: We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

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. KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.