HPC Storage Engineer: High-Performance Linux Systems

Dormont Manufacturing Co; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 105,900 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company matching

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

KLA is seeking an HPC Storage Engineer to design, test, and support high‑performance storage for HPC workloads. You will gain hands‑on experience with production storage systems and mentorship toward senior engineering roles.

You will work with storage, hardware, and HPC teams to integrate storage into shipped products, support NPI and production ramps, and help quantify performance through benchmarks. The role emphasizes collaboration and practical system depth.

Qualifications

• 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 storage, RAID, and data protection concepts; Lustre-like architectures.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Linux environments

HPC storage

Storage fundamentals

NVMe/SSD storage

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Doctorate

Job description

KLA is seeking an HPC Storage Engineer to design, test, and support high‑performance storage for HPC workloads. You will gain hands‑on experience with production storage systems and mentorship toward senior engineering roles.

You will work with storage, hardware, and HPC teams to integrate storage into shipped products, support NPI and production ramps, and help quantify performance through benchmarks. The role emphasizes collaboration and practical system depth.