Senior HPC Software & Systems Architect

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.

The Measurement, Analytics and Control (MACH) division is KLA’s software powerhouse, responsible for developing high-performance software platforms that support semiconductor manufacturing. MACH delivers cutting-edge technologies in patterning analytics, modeling, and data science—empowering chipmakers to ramp next-gen devices faster and more efficiently. Our cross-functional team of research scientists, software engineers, apps engineers and process engineers are solving the industry’s most complex technical problems.

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  this exciting role you will design and architect next-generation High Performance Computing platforms supporting semiconductor manufacturing, AI workloads, computational lithography, metrology, inspection, and large-scale distributed data processing environments. Lead architecture decisions spanning software, hardware, networking, storage, GPU acceleration, virtualization, and cloud-integrated HPC infrastructure.

Drive technology strategy, roadmap planning, and cross-functional alignment from concept through field deployment

Responsibilities will include: HPC Platform Architecture Define architecture for enterprise-scale HPC clusters.

Develop compute, network, storage, and virtualization strategies.

Lead platform scalability planning from tens to thousands of cores.

Define standards for GPU acceleration, distributed computing, and workload orchestration.

Establish system performance entitlement targets and capacity planning methodologies.

Software Architecture Design distributed software services supporting HPC infrastructure.

Define APIs, automation frameworks, configuration management architecture, and observability solutions.

Lead adoption of software engineering best practices including CI/CD, testing, infrastructure-as-code, and Dev Ops methodologies.

Drive modernization initiatives across Linux, container, and cloud-native platforms.

Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership across software, systems, manufacturing, operations, and field organizations.

Lead architecture reviews and design reviews.

Mentor engineers across multiple levels.

Establish coding, deployment, and operational standards.

Serve as escalation leader for critical system issues affecting customers and manufacturing operations.

Product Strategy Define HPC platform roadmap.

Evaluate emerging technologies in:

GPU computingAI infrastructure

Storage architectures

Virtualization

Cloud integration

High-speed networking

Partner with product management and business leadership on long-term HPC strategy.

Required skills and experience:

Expert Linux knowledge:

RHELRocky Alma Linux Ubuntu SUSEHPC…