KLA Corporation

KLA Corporation

HPC Systems Engineer

Milpitas, CA

Sponsorship not specified$136k-$232kDetected 5 days ago
PythonBashDockerKubernetesCI/CDLinuxDevOpsMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchData EngineeringRAGAgentic AIMLOpsIntellectual PropertySystems EngineeringHardware DesignAR/VRResearchCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Company Overview KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.
  • No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us.

Responsibilities

  • Design & Build AI Infrastructure: Architect, deploy, and operate scalable, secure, and cost-effective AI platforms, distributed training environments, and model serving systems.
  • Research & Innovation: Evaluate emerging technologies in AI infrastructure, compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and security, and develop reference designs for enterprise adoption.
  • Hardware & Software Orchestration: Bring up, integrate, and lead AI compute infrastructure while diagnosing hardware, firmware, operating system, and platform issues.
  • Data & Storage Management: Design and maintain high-performance storage, networking, and data pipelines supporting large-scale AI workloads.
  • Performance & Reliability: Develop observability and monitoring solutions, optimize AI workload performance, and ensure infrastructure meets reliability and availability targets.
  • Security & Compliance: Implement security-by-design principles including encryption, identity and access management, secrets management, and AI data security.
  • Collaboration: Partner with AI researchers, data scientists, software engineers, IT, and security teams to align platform capabilities with business and product needs.
  • Design and maintain high-performance storage, networking, and data pipelines supporting large-scale AI workloads.
  • Develop observability and monitoring solutions, optimize AI workload performance, and ensure infrastructure meets reliability and availability targets.
  • Implement security-by-design principles including encryption, identity and access management, secrets management, and AI data security.

Requirements

  • Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience
  • Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years
  • Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years
  • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • 5-8 years in systems engineering, DevOps, or ML infrastructure
  • Hands‑on experience building AI/GPU cluster
  • Minimum Qualifications
  • Base Pay Range: $136,300.00 - $231,700.00 Annually
  • Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA
  • KLA's total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits, 401(K) including company matching, employee stock purchase program (ESPP), student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement program, development and career growth opportunities and programs, financial planning benefits, wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP), paid time off and paid company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.
  • Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
  • KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at talent.acquisition@kla.com or at +1-408-352-2808 to request accommodation.
  • Be aware of potentially fraudulent job postings or suspicious recruiting activity by persons that are currently posing as KLA employees. KLA never asks for any financial compensation to be considered for an interview, to become an employee, or for equipment. Further, KLA does not work with any recruiters or third parties who charge such fees either directly or on behalf of KLA. Please ensure that you have searched KLA's Careers website for legitimate job postings. KLA follows a recruiting process that involves multiple interviews in person or on video conferencing with our hiring managers. If you are concerned that a communication, an interview, an offer of employment, or that an employee is not legitimate, please send an email to talent.acquisition@kla.com to confirm the person you are communicating with is an employee. We take your privacy very seriously and confidentially handle your information.

Nice to have

  • Company Overview
  • KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.
  • KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.
  • The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development.
  • KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D.
  • Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world's leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices.
  • Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems.
  • There is never a dull moment with us.

Skills

  • Infrastructure Knowledge: High speed networking, storage systems, virtualization, and server management.
  • AI/ML Integration: Understanding of model training, fine‑tuning, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI systems
  • Automation & Scripting: Bash, Python, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC).
  • Security: TPM-based encryption, Kubernetes security (RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper), container security.
  • Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies.

Compensation

  • $136,300.00 - $231,700.00 Annually
  • Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
  • The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting.
  • Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training.
  • We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable.
  • If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Benefits

  • Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed.
  • Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training.

Company info

  • We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable.

Equal opportunity

  • KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Please contact us at talent.acquisition@kla.com or at +1-408-352-2808 to request accommodation.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer.
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