HPC Windows Server Infrastructure Engineer

KLA; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA in Milpitas, CA, is seeking a hands-on engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Windows-based HPC environments that power AI workloads and advanced semiconductor inspection systems.

You'll manage system images, automation, and deployment processes, plus collaborate across software, hardware, and field teams to drive scalable infrastructure and future product generations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IT or related field.
• 3–5 years of Windows Server deployment and administration experience.
• Experience with SCCM/MDT/ADK/WinPE/WDS and AD/DNS/DHCP.

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, and optimize Windows Server environments supporting HPC and AI workloads.
• Develop and maintain system images, deployment processes, and infrastructure automation.
• Support compute, storage, networking, and GPU-based platforms used in advanced semiconductor inspection systems.
• Create and maintain deployment, monitoring, and diagnostic tools using PowerShell and Python.
• Perform hardware integration, qualification, benchmarking, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, manufacturing, and field teams to support product development and deployment.
• Drive infrastructure refresh and scalability initiatives supporting future product generations.

Skills

Windows Server

SCCM/MDT

Active Directory

PowerShell

Hyper-V

Networking

Python

Automation

System imaging

Hardware bring-up

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's or PhD in related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Grafana

Prometheus

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/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 e-Beam division plays a critical role in KLA's inspection ecosystem, with tools that deliver high-resolution, timely insights into defects and critical locations on the wafer. Used alongside KLA's patterned and bare wafer inspectors, e-Beam systems help our customers quickly identify and understand yield-impacting issues-enabling faster, more effective actions to correct the manufacturing process.

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.

KLA's eBeam division develops industry-leading semiconductor inspection systems powered by advanced computing infrastructure, AI, and large-scale analytics. We are seeking a hands-on engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Windows-based environments that support next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. This role is ideal for an engineer with strong Windows Server expertise who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges across hardware, software, networking, and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, and optimize Microsoft Windows Server environments supporting HPC and AI workloads
• Develop and maintain system images, deployment processes, and infrastructure automation.
• Support compute, storage, networking, and GPU-based platforms used in advanced semiconductor inspection systems.
• Create and maintain deployment, monitoring, and diagnostic tools using PowerShell and Python.
• Perform hardware integration, qualification, benchmarking, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, manufacturing, and field teams to support product development and deployment.
• Drive infrastructure refresh and scalability initiatives supporting future product generations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience deploying and administering Microsoft Windows Server (2012-2025) environments.
• Configuration Manager OSD (SCCM), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), ADK, WinPE, and Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
• Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP
• PowerShell scripting and automation
• Hyper-V and virtualization concepts
• TCP/IP networking fundamentals and enterprise infrastructure services
• Configuration management and deployment automation
• x86 server hardware, system integration, and performance optimization
• Storage technologies including RAID, HBA controllers, and JBOD architectures
• Hardware bring-up, device drivers, and system diagnostics
• Python for automation and infrastructure management

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft certifications (MCSE or equivalent)
• Experience supporting HPC, AI, or GPU-accelerated compute environments
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads
• Configuration management and Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git
• Monitoring platforms including Grafana and Prometheus
• PKI, SSL/TLS certificates, and security best practices
• Workload schedulers such as Slurm
• Cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D., Master's, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field with enough hands‑on experience to meet the required qualifications.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Total Rewards

Base Pay Range: $136,300.00 - $199,900.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

KLA's total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive pr