The posting
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.
Group/Division
The Legal Compliance Organization (LCO) provides legal guidance to further KLA’s strategic objectives and protect and preserve the company's legal, ethical and financial integrity and reputation. Drawing on expertise in corporate law, commercial law, employment law, ethics and compliance, and intellectual property, the LCO offers strategic legal counsel that is informed by a clear understanding of the company’s business objectives and knowledge of the laws and regulations relevant to the business worldwide.
What You'll Do
In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead global trade compliance operational support across all regions, including export control blocks, restricted party screening escalations, HTS/ECCN classification, order release, shared inbox support, broker inquiries, and escalations.
- Review and validate import/export documentation, commercial invoice data, country of origin, customs value, part descriptions, shipment information, and related data required for compliant customs and export activity.
- Support U.S. and global export control reviews, including block resolution, ECCN validation, SPL screening escalations, license requirement assessment, sanctions/embargo considerations, and escalation of higher-risk transactions.
- Coordinate with customs brokers, freight forwarders, logistics, procurement, requestors, and regional stakeholders to resolve holds, missing documentation, classification questions, shipment delays, and urgent compliance requests.
- Own operational reporting controls, including SLA performance, request volumes, cycle time, aging, screening escalation activity, backlog, quality metrics, bottlenecks, and continuous improvement actions.
- Improve SOPs, work instructions, classification guidance, escalation procedures, training materials, governance documentation, and operating routines to strengthen process discipline and audit readiness.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in semiconductor, electronics, advanced manufacturing, shared services, or high-volume trade compliance operations.
- Experience with SAP, SAP GTS, Fiori, trade management systems, ServiceNow, Power BI, SharePoint, Excel, or similar tools.
- Ability to build trackers, dashboards, metrics, reporting controls, and exception reports; broker management, import audits, recordkeeping, process standardization, and LCB/CCS/CES certification preferred.
Minimum Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field; 5+ years of experience in global trade compliance, import/export operations, customs compliance, or export controls.
- Hands-on experience with HTS/ECCN classification, export control blocks, SPL screening, customs documentation, valuation, country of origin, and shipment release requirements.
- Strong knowledge of EAR, sanctions controls, license requirements, controlled technology considerations, operational queues, escalations, data review, stakeholder communication, and timely follow-through.
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.
Use of AI Statement
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.
