KLA

Instructional Designer – XR Content Development

KLA  •  Chennai, IN (Onsite)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

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 KLA Services team consists of Service Sales, Marketing, Spares Supply Chain Management, Field Operations, Engineering, Product Training, Digital Solutions and Analytics, and Technical Product Support. Our services organization maximizes the value of our customers' KLA assets – with highly trained service and product support engineers providing installation services and 24/7 technical support and parts delivery through our extensive supply chain network.

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

XR Storyboarding & Learning Design

  • Analyze technical documentation, training materials, procedures, and engineering inputs.
  • Visualize XR training concepts and transform them into clear, engaging, and interactive storyboards.
  • Create detailed storyboards that guide XR, AR, VR, and 3D content development.
  • Design learner-centric training experiences that improve knowledge retention and performance.
  • Ensure instructional content follows established learning methodologies and XR best practices.
  • Partner with SMEs, Instructors, Engineering teams, and Training Managers to gather requirements and validate content.
  • Work closely with Mixed Reality Developers (MRDs) to translate storyboards into immersive XR experiences.
  • Facilitate storyboard reviews, incorporate feedback, and drive approvals and sign-offs.
  • Coordinate activities across global teams to ensure alignment and timely delivery of projects.
  • Manage multiple XR projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and delivery timelines.
  • Proactively identify project risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
  • Track project milestones, reviews, and stakeholder actions.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives, process standardization, and innovation within the XR team.
  • Communicate project status, risks, and expectations effectively across different organizational levels.
  • Build strong working relationships with cross-functional and multicultural teams.
  • Demonstrates a positive attitude, willingness to learn new technologies, and openness to challenges.

Minimum Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Engineering, Technical Communication, Education, Learning Technologies, or a related field.
  • 6–10 years of experience in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, Technical Training Development, or XR Content Development.
  • Proven experience developing storyboards for technical, 3D, AR, VR, or XR learning solutions.
  • Strong understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies.
  • Experience working with technical documentation, procedures, and engineering content.

Key Skills & Competencies

  • XR, AR, VR, or 3D learning content visualization experience.
  • Storyboard development and learning content design expertise.
  • Experience using Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Teams). Added advantage using tools like Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline 360.
  • Familiarity with 3D/XR workflows and collaboration with design or development teams.
  • Understanding of multimedia learning principles.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Self-driven, proactive, and highly organized.
  • Ability to manage ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities.
  • Attention to detail and quality-focused mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in manufacturing, semiconductor, engineering, or technical training environments.
  • Experience supporting AR/VR/XR training content development.
  • Knowledge of learning management systems (LMS) and digital learning technologies.

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.

KLA

About KLA

KLA develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging and printed circuit boards. In close collaboration with leading customers across the globe, our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that move the world forward.

Visit us at: www.kla.com

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Industry
Hardware & Semiconductors
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Milpitas, California
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
kla.com
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