HPC Systems Manager

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With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. 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. The LS-SWIFT Division of KLAs Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry logic memory automotive MEMS advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industrys most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry logic DRAM and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside backside and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC MEMS and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US Singapore India and Germany and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia Europe and North America.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

As anSystem Design Engineering Managerspecializing inAI Systems and High-Performance Computing (HPC) youll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI-driven solutions. Your leadership will drive innovation optimize performance and foster collaboration across cross-functional teams. Lets delve into the details:

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership:

• Lead a team of engineers and system architects to develop the platform for DL training and inference

• Define the technical vision strategy and roadmap for DL/AI systems within the HPC domain. AI Infrastructure Design and Optimization:

• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to design and optimize AI infrastructure.

• Ensure seamless integration of AI workloads with existing HPC clusters.

GPU Cluster Management and Scalability:

• Oversee the management of GPU-based clusters.

• Scale AI infrastructure to handle large-scale training and inferencing workloads..

Performance Tuning and Benchmarking:

• Drive performance improvements by analyzing bottlenecks and optimizing system components.

• Benchmark AI models and algorithms on HPC clusters.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with product managers researchers and stakeholders to align AI initiatives with business goals.

• Communicate technical progress risks and opportunities to senior leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience:

• Proven track record in managing engineering teams preferably in AI HPC or related fields.

• Familiarity with AI frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch etc.) and HPC tools (Slurm OpenMPI etc.).

Technical Proficiency:

• Strong understanding of GPU architectures CUDA programming and parallel computing.

• Knowledge of containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and cloud-based AI deployments.

Leadership Skills:

• Ability to mentor and develop team members.

• Excellent decision-making problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.

Communication:

• Effective communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience presenting technical concepts to executive leadership.

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

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