HPC Storage Engineer

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

Group/Division The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics.

KLA's Central Engineering organization is made up of nine Centers of Excellence (CoEs) spanning disciplines like automation, motion control, sensors, platform design, and packaging. Each CoE contributes not only technical deliverables but also deep expertise, best practices, and advanced tools that elevate both what we build—and how we build it.

What You'll DoIn this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

Design, test, and tune storage systems that power real HPC workloads! The Computational Solutions Infrastructure Group (CSIG) at KLA builds scalable, high‑performance infrastructure used by engineers running compute‑ and data‑intensive workloads. We’re seeking an HPC Storage Engineer who wants hands‑on experience working with production HPC storage systems.

This role offers strong technical mentorship, real‑world impact, and a clear path to senior‑level HPC storage engineering!

Job Duties , but not limited to:

HPC Storage Development & Support Contribute to the design and implementation of high‑performance storage for HPC environments

Support storage configurations using NVMe, SSDs, RAID, and enterprise components

Help balance performance, reliability, and cost under guidance from senior engineers

Integration & Delivery Work with product, hardware, and HPC teams to integrate storage into shipped systems

Support new product introduction (NPI), production ramps, and component changes

Assist with storage qualification, testing, and documentation

Performance & Troubleshooting Execute storage benchmarks aligned to real engineering workloads

Analyze I/O behavior, throughput, latency, and metadata performance

Troubleshoot storage and performance issues in Linux environments

Learning & Collaboration Partner closely with senior HPC storage engineers and architects

Learn best practices for production‑grade HPC storage design

Build depth across hardware, OS, file systems, and performance tooling

Qualifications, but not limited to:2–4 years experience in storage, systems, HPC, or infrastructure engineering

Hands‑on experience working in Linux environments

Exposure to high‑performance or enterprise storage systems

Understanding of storage fundamentals: IOPS, latency, bandwidth

Familiarity with:

NVMe or SSD‑based storageRAID and data protection concepts

Parallel or distributed storage concepts (Lustre‑like architectures)
Nice to Have Exposure to HPC clusters or compute‑heavy workloads

Basic knowledge of networking concepts related to storage

Experience supporting systems that ship to customers

Why Join the Team:

Hands‑on experience with real HPC storage systems

Strong mentorship and a clear growth path

Work on systems that are shipped, supported,…