Senior HPC Software & Systems Architect - Milpitas, CA, United States
$186,200 - $316,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior HPC Software & Systems Architect in the Measurement, Analytics and Control (MACH) division, you will design and architect high-performance computing platforms supporting semiconductor manufacturing, AI workloads, computational lithography, metrology, inspection, and large-scale distributed data processing environments. You will lead architectural decisions spanning software, hardware, networking, storage, GPU acceleration, virtualization, and cloud-integrated HPC infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Define architecture for enterprise-scale HPC clusters, compute, network, storage, virtualization strategies, and platform scalability from tens to thousands of cores. - Design distributed software services, APIs, automation frameworks, configuration management architecture, and observability solutions supporting HPC infrastructure. - Establish standards for GPU acceleration, workload orchestration, distributed computing, performance entitlement targets, and capacity planning. - Lead the adoption of CI/CD, testing, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps methodologies across Linux, container, and cloud-native platforms. - Define the HPC platform roadmap by evaluating emerging technologies in GPU computing, AI infrastructure, parallel storage architectures, and high-speed networking. - Provide technical leadership across software, systems, manufacturing, operations, and field organizations while conducting architecture and design reviews.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree with 12-15 years of related experience, Master's degree with 8+ years of experience, or a Doctorate with 5+ years of experience. - Expert Linux administration and engineering knowledge across distributions including RHEL, Rocky, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu, or SUSE. - Deep expertise in HPC technologies including SLURM, SGE, Kubernetes, distributed computing architectures, NUMA optimization, MPI concepts, and GPU workload scheduling. - Hands-on experience with hardware infrastructure including NVIDIA GPU ecosystems, high-speed Ethernet, RDMA, NVMe storage, parallel file systems, and NAS/NFS architectures. - Experience with virtualization and container technologies such as VMware, Proxmox, and KVM. - Proficiency in software development and automation using Python, C++, Bash, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, and infrastructure automation frameworks. - Demonstrated background in system architecture covering service-oriented design, scalability engineering, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance benchmarking.
Skills: HPC, software architect, data analytics, process control, semiconductor manufacturing
This role has been open 102 days — well above the 61-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
697
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
$210k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (697 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 697 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 207 | 6222 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 102 d | 61 d (+41 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $210k |
Skills observed across this category: HPC, software architect, data analytics, process control, semiconductor manufacturing
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 172 open roles · median 82 d
- NVIDIA · 133 open roles · median 42 d
- AMD · 61 open roles · median 50 d
- Mobileye · 25 open roles · median 76 d
- Broadcom · 23 open roles · median 56 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 118 d
How we counted: 697 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.