Scrum Master - Agile Coach (f/m/d)

Company Overview

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 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 hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group / Division

Enabling the movement toward advanced chip design, KLA’s Measurement, Analytics and Control group (MACH) is looking for the best and brightest research scientists, software engineers, application development engineers and senior product technology process engineers to join our team. The MACH team's mission is to collaborate with our customers to innovate technologies and solutions that detect and control highly complex process variations at their source rather than compensate for them later. With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure their fabs ramp next‑generation devices to volume production quickly and cost‑effectively. Our MACH team develops leading‑edge solutions for patterning process analytics and control technologies, providing customers with critical insight at the feature level, field level and cross‑wafer analysis. Our teams also develop advanced modeling simulation, data analytics and process control modeling technologies. As a member of the MACH team you’ll be joining the most sophisticated and successful process‑control company in the semiconductor industry—working across functions to solve the most complex technical problems in the digital age.

Job Description

Our team in Dresden is looking for a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.

About the Role

A Scrum Master at KLA:

• Is responsible for one or two teams.
• Coaches the team, the department and the organization about agile values.
• Supports the Product Owner and developers to deliver valuable products.
• Shapes our working environment and work processes with ideas and drives the team to get better.
• Challenges the management with the team’s needs to become self‑organized.
• Collaborates and aligns with other Scrum Masters.

Things to Know

Within the KLA corporation we collaborate with teams around the globe. We have teams based in the USA and China. There are opportunities to travel and work with them, though the goal is to keep things local and simple. Our industry has a strong interest in quality, reliability and regulation, but we strive to provide continuous delivery and automate as much as possible. We do NOT commit to textbook Scrum but to the agile values. It is up to the teams to find their best fitting agile way of working.

Qualifications

• Certified (e.g., PSM, CSM) ScrumMaster or Agile Coach with proven experience in agile software development.
• Passionate about helping and coaching colleagues.
• Curious about the current challenges of the semiconductor industry, one of the most thriving high‑tech industries in the world.
• Enjoys developing software that solves our customers’ problems.
• Educational background: Doctorate (Academic) Degree with 0 years related work experience, Master’s Level Degree with 3 years related work experience, Bachelor’s Level Degree with 5 years related work experience.

Benefits

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.