HPC Storage Engineer (E)

Company Overview

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

HPC Storage Engineers are core to KLAs technology while we do not currently have an opening we are always building our HPC Storage Engineering talent community we are interested in learning about your background.

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Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect highperformance storage solutions for HPC workloads integrated into shipped KLA tools.
• Own storage design tradeoffs across performance reliability cost serviceability and lifecycle.
• Define storage requirements early in the product lifecycle and support NPI through production ramp.
• Develop and execute performance benchmarks aligned to real engineering workloads; analyze I/O patterns and tune storage stacks for throughput latency and reliability.
• Partner with product engineering HPC architects hardware teams and Corporate IT to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
• Support hardware qualification EOL transitions and requalification of storage components.
• Provide technical leadership mentor junior engineers and contribute to CSIG design standards and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of handson experience designing or supporting HPC storage systems.
• Strong experience with parallel and distributed storage architectures.
• Deep understanding of storage performance (latency bandwidth IOPS metadata).
• Experience delivering storage solutions for longlifecycle or productized environments.
• Ability to work across hardware software and infrastructure teams.

Technical Skills (Required)

• Highperformance and distributed storage systems.
• Parallel file systems (e.g. Lustre GPFS or equivalent).
• NVMebased storage highbandwidth interconnects RAID and dataprotection strategies.
• Linux systems performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• HPC networking concepts (highspeed fabrics; RDMA preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience shipping storage solutions as part of commercial products.
• Familiarity with HPC clusters schedulers and compute/storage codesign.
• Exposure to Kubernetes or containerized environments with performancecritical storage.
• Background in semiconductor manufacturing or highreliability engineering environments.

What Makes This Role Unique

• You design storage architectures that ship with worldclass toolsnot generic enterprise infrastructure.
• Your work directly impacts algorithm performance tool throughput and customer outcomes.
• You influence nextgeneration HPC storage strategy across multiple platforms and divisions.

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

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 job-related 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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