KLA HPC Systems Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

410404115

HPC server systems are increasingly an essential and enabling component to the performance of advanced equipment supporting the next-generation of semiconductor manufacturing. Process control equipment rely on HPC server systems to effectively handle large amounts of data and apply state-of-the-art algorithms and software to derive useful and timely inspection and metrology results. As-such, these systems used in high-volume wafer and mask production need to be operating at near entitlement, and be cost effective, highly reliable and serviceable for 15+ years in the field.

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be responsible for the architectural design, deployment as well as support of an HPC cluster product used in IC fabs and mask-shops around the world. You will identify and assess developer requirements, devise solutions, and recommend, plan and drive these solutions to production.

Requirements:

• In-depth knowledge and experience of Linux systems (SuSE, RedHat, Rocky, Ubuntu)
• Experience with architecting of crafting and maintaining robust storage
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience working in virtualization technology
• Strong HPC HW knowledge especially in the Server, GPU, Networking, Storage, Scheduler, BIOS & BMC arenas.
• Experience in System-D, Net boot/PXE, Linux HA.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP fundamentals and knowledge of protocols, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP.
• Strong with Storage File Shares: NFS/CIFS
• Ability to code and develop Shell and Python scripts.
• Experience with one or more of the listed Configuration Mgmt utilities. (Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet etc).
• Possess a strong DevOps focus: Knowledge of setting up a continuous development pipelines, Repository software (Git-based).
• Hypervisor Knowledge: VMWare, Proxmox, or XCP-ng
• Knowledge of Apache/Nginx, Setting up proxy/reverse proxy, application server routing, load balancing (HA Proxy)
• HPC Schedulers: SGE/SLURM
• Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios
• Database Technologies: MySQL

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 6 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 years, in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.

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