HPC Systems Engineer
KLA Milpitas, CA Full-time 3/31/2026
Master's with 2+ Years of ExperiencePhD Entry-Level
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•FY 2025Job Description
KLA is seeking a skilled professional to design, deploy, and support HPC cluster products used in semiconductor manufacturing. The role involves assessing developer requirements and driving solutions to production, ensuring high performance and reliability of systems used in IC fabs and mask-shops worldwide.
Requirements
- In-depth knowledge and experience of Linux systems (SuSE, RedHat, Rocky, Ubuntu)
- Experience with architecting, crafting, and maintaining robust storage
- Strong knowledge and extensive experience working in virtualization technology
- Strong HPC HW knowledge especially in the Server, GPU, Networking, Storage, Scheduler, BIOS & BMC arenas
- Experience in System-D, Net boot/PXE, Linux HA
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP fundamentals and knowledge of protocols, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP
- Strong with Storage File Shares: NFS/CIFS
- Ability to code and develop Shell and Python scripts
- Experience with one or more of the listed Configuration Mgmt utilities (Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet etc)
- Possess a strong DevOps focus: Knowledge of setting up continuous development pipelines, Repository software (Git-based)
- Hypervisor Knowledge: VMWare, Proxmox, or XCP-ng
- Knowledge of Apache/Nginx, Setting up proxy/reverse proxy, application server routing, load balancing (HA Proxy)
- HPC Schedulers: SGE/SLURM
- Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios
- Database Technologies: MySQL
Responsibilities
- Architectural design, deployment, and support of an HPC cluster product
- Identify and assess developer requirements
- Devise solutions and recommend, plan, and drive these solutions to production
Benefits
- Employees at KLA are often offered competitive pay with bonuses, a 401(k) match, an employee stock purchase program, and financial perks like student-debt assistance, planning support, and group insurance discounts. Health and lifestyle benefits typically include medical/dental/vision, life and other voluntary coverages, paid time off and holidays, family leave, backup care, wellness rewards, gym discounts, and community-volunteering opportunities. Employees also get strong growth support through tuition reimbursement, KLA’s corporate learning center, education awards, and engineering certification programs.
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