Linux Engineer - HPC Design

Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop smartphone wearable device voicecontrolled gadget flexible screen VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles integrated circuits packaging printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15 of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists engineers data scientists and problemsolvers work together with the worlds leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrows electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp nextgeneration devices to volume production quickly and costeffectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design KLAs Global Products Group (GPG) which is responsible for creating all of KLAs metrology and inspection products is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist software engineers application development engineers and senior product technology process engineers. Central Engineering is KLAs largest engineering organization comprised of 9 CentersofExcellence (CoE) in various disciplines applied across all product groups in the company. These CoE include Handling & Automation Precision Motion Control Sensors & Image Acquisition Platform Design and Packaging Engineering among others. Talent includes over 500 engineers across global centers in Israel China India and the US. Each CoE contributes not just talent and deliverables per discipline toward product programs but also subject matter expertise best practices roadmaps specialized facilities apparatus models and analytics. These differentiate KLA not only in WHAT we do but also in HOW we do it.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Crafting deploying and supporting an HPC cluster from infancy to enterprise is exciting because it involves crafting robust scalable systems that push the boundaries of computational power! This process offers the satisfaction of overcoming sophisticated challenges and seeing your work enable groundbreaking research and innovation.

Responsibilities for this exciting role will include:

• Design implementation & support of highperformance compute clusters
• Solid understanding on HPC systems including CPU/GPU architecture scalable/robust storage highbandwidth interconnects and a knowledge of cloud based computing architectures
• Apply their attention to detail to generate HW BOMs for HPC Clusters provide vendor management and coordinate HW release activities.
• Use their strong skills with the Linux OS to configure appropriate operating systems for the HPC system
• Understand and assemble the project specifications and performance requirements at the subsystem and system levels. Adhere and strive to project timelines to ensure program achievements complete on time.
• Support design and release of new products to manufacturing and ultimately the customer providing quality golden images procedures scripts and documentation to the manufacturing team and customer support team.
• Lead EOL Parts ReQualification for long term system deployments
• Support inhouse as well as infield critical issues

Required Qualifications:

• Validated indepth and flavor agnostic knowledge of Linux systems (SuSE RedHat Rocky Ubuntu)
• Experience of crafting and maintaining robust storage
• Strong HPC HW knowledge especially in the Server GPU Networking Storage Scheduler BIOS & BMC arenas.
• Experience in SystemD 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).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Possess a strong DevOps focus: Knowledge of setting up a continuous development pipelines Repository software (Gitbased).
• Hypervisor Knowledge: VMWare Proxmox or XCPng
• 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
• BS or MS degree 5 years validated experience
• Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineer related fields

Skills and Abilities:

• Team Orientation & Interpersonal Highly motivated teammate with ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all levels within and external to the organization.
• Organization & Time Management Able to plan schedule prioritize and follow up on tasks related to the job to achieve goals within or ahead of established time frames.
• Multitask Ability to expeditiously organize coordinate manage prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously to swiftly assess a situation determine a logical course of action and apply the appropriate response.
• Adaptability to Change Able to be flexible and encouraging and able to assimilate change positively and proactively in rapid growth environment.
• Outstanding teammate with excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Masters Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelors Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

Base Pay Range: $100000.00 $170000.00 Annually

Primary Location: USAMIAnn ArborKLA

KLAs total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical dental vision life and other voluntary benefits 401(K) including company matching employee stock purchase program (ESPP) student debt assistance tuition reimbursement program development and career growth opportunities and programs financial planning benefits wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP) paid time off and paid company holidays and family care and bonding leave.

Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role level and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors including state minimum pay wage rates location jobrelated skills experience and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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