HPC Storage Engineer — Hands-On with Mentorship

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

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.