HPC Storage Engineer

KLATencor Corporation; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA's Semi PC unit seeks an HPC Storage Engineer in Ann Arbor, MI, to design, test, and optimize storage for real HPC workloads. You will collaborate with product, hardware, and HPC teams to deliver high-performance storage solutions and participate in integration and qualification efforts.

The role offers mentorship, a clear growth path, and exposure to production systems shipped globally, building depth in Linux, storage architectures, and performance tooling.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in storage, HPC, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on Linux experience.
• Exposure to high-performance or enterprise storage systems.
• Understanding of storage fundamentals: IOPS, latency, bandwidth.
• Familiarity with NVMe or SSD-based storage RAID 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Storage engineering

Linux

HPC storage

IOPS latency bandwidth

NVMe SSD RAID

Lustre-like architecture

Networking basics

Customer-facing support

Job description

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/DivisionThe 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 Do In 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, highperformance infrastructure used by engineers running compute and dataintensive workloads. We’re seeking an HPC Storage Engineer who wants handson experience working with production HPC storage systems. This role offers strong technical mentorship, realworld impact, and a clear path to seniorlevel HPC storage engineering!

Job Duties, but not limited to:

• HPC Storage Development & Support
• Contribute to the design and implementation of highperformance 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 productiongrade 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
• Handson experience working in Linux environments
• Exposure to highperformance or enterprise storage systems
• Understanding of storage fundamentals: IOPS, latency, bandwidth
• Familiarity with: NVMe or SSDbased storage RAID and data protection concepts
• Parallel or distributed storage concepts (Lustrelike architectures)
• Nice to Have Exposure to HPC clusters or computeheavy workloads
• Basic knowledge of networking concepts related to storage
• Experience supporting systems that ship to customers

Why Join the Team:

• Handson experience with real HPC storage systems
• Strong mentorship and a clear growth path
• Work on systems that are shipped, supported, and used globally
• Mi