Staff Storage Engineer HPC (HPC / IMC Systems)

KLA•Milpitas, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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, voice-controlled 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 problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us. 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, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s 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 Broadband Plasma Division (BBP) provides market-leading patterned wafer optical inspection systems for leading-edge IC manufacturing. Logic, foundry, and memory customers depend on BBP products to detect yield-critical defects for process debug and excursion monitoring at advanced process nodes. BBP flagship products include the 29xx and 39xx series which leverage Broadband Plasma technology to capture a wide range of defects with ultimate sensitivity at the optical inspection speeds needed for inline defect monitoring.

Requirements

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
Deep expertise in Linux systems, including I/O stack, kernel behavior, and performance tuning
Strong experience designing and deploying storage solutions in HPC or high-performance environments
Strong understanding of storage technologies: NVMe, SSD, HDD, RAID, Tiered storage
High-speed interconnects (InfiniBand, RoCE, or equivalent)
Hands-on experience with performance benchmarking, profiling, and tuning
Strong understanding of distributed systems and cluster architectures
Hands-on expertise with parallel file systems, including: Lustre, BeeGFS (BGFS)
Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 6 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 8+ years

Responsibilities

Architect scalable, high-performance storage solutions across BBP platforms, aligned with long-term product roadmaps
Evaluate and optimize storage architectures across diverse workloads (real-time processing, AI/DL pipelines, high-throughput data ingest)
Analyze tradeoffs across performance, cost, reliability, and scalability (NVMe / SSD / HDD tiering, network fabrics, file systems)
Perform hands-on performance characterization, benchmarking, and tuning of storage and I/O subsystems
Identify and address performance bottlenecks across Linux, network, and storage stacks
Drive internal innovation by going beyond standard vendor solutions and influencing architectural direction
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (hardware, systems, applications, field) to: Gather requirements, Understand workload characteristics, Generate architectural options, Drive alignment toward optimal solutions
Support evaluation, POC, and productization of storage solutions for future BBP platforms
Contribute to internal knowledge base, documentation, and best practices for storage design and tuning