Senior Export Specialist

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. The Senior Export Specialist is a key member of the Global Trade Compliance team responsible for ensuring compliant, efficient, and scalable import and export operations with a primary focus on U.S. export controls and export compliance, while supporting import compliance. This role is responsible for complex tariff classification, export control compliance activities, import compliance controls, analytics, audit support, process design, and cross-functional trade compliance initiatives. The position partners closely with Legal, Logistics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Product Management, Customs Brokers, and regional trade teams to standardize processes, improve data quality, implement automation opportunities, and maintain compliance with export control, sanctions, and customs regulations across global trade operations. Key Responsibilities Support GTC's Classification Engineering Lead in ECCN determinations, export jurisdiction/classification reviews, and maintain HS/HTS classifications for semiconductor equipment, spare parts, components, electronics, software, and related technologies. Support export control reviews, restricted party screening escalations, license requirement assessments / decrementing, license exception analysis, and voluntary disclosure evaluations, as needed. post-clearance reviews, disclosures, and compliance inquiries. Design, document, and continuously improve export/import processes, controls, SOPs, and governance procedures. Develop exception reporting, validation controls, systemic data feeds, and compliance monitoring metrics for ECCN, license determination/decrementing, restricted party screening, HTS, origin, and clearance data. Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, compliance analytics, and exception reporting to monitor key trade compliance KPIs. Identify operational and regulatory risks, and drive data-driven decision making. Partner closely with customs brokers, freight forwarders, and external service providers to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and alignment with broker instructions, service level expectations, and established standard operating procedures. Lead trade compliance projects, system enhancements, and automation initiatives. Coordinate with logistics providers, customs brokers, procurement, engineering, and manufacturing teams to standardize global processes. Support internal and external audits and conduct periodic reviews of trade compliance controls and records. Monitor regulatory changes related to export controls, sanctions, customs, and trade remedies and present risk assessments and recommendations to senior leadership. Preferred Skills & Qualifications: Worked within semiconductor, electronics, advanced manufacturing, or other technology industries, especially environments involving controlled technology, software, encryption, or sophisticated global supply chains. Solid understanding of EAR requirements, E…

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