Manufacturing Design Engineer
KLA
Milpitas, CA · $107k–$181k a year · Posted October 30, 2026
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Where Milpitas, CA ranks
Where Milpitas, CA placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #14Best cities for mid-career professionals in the West Coast59% · of 68
- #17Best cities for manufacturing and industrial pay after cost of living$132k · of 35
- #20Best cities for AI-skill jobs in the West Coast14% · of 68
- #20Best cities for pay after cost of living in California$145k · of 29
- #21Cities with the most jobs that need no experience in the West Coast0.8% · of 66
- #22Best all-round cities for AI careers in the West Coast40 / 100 · of 36
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,318 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
How AI is used in this kind of work
AI use among industrial engineers is little observed so far. Measured exposure for industrial engineers: 4% (little observed).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
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