Software Engineer – IMC Platform and Cluster Infrastructure - Milpitas, CA, United States
$136,300 - $231,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on KLA's Surfscan products for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools.
About the role
This role involves developing and supporting the IMC Platform and Cluster Infrastructure for semiconductor manufacturing systems. The focus is on Surfscan products, including the SPx platforms for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools.
What you'll do
- Administer and integrate Linux systems, providing infrastructure support in enterprise or production environments.
- Deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Kubernetes, containerized applications, and distributed computing.
- Automate installation, validation, monitoring, and operational workflows using scripting and software development skills.
- Evaluate and qualify server platforms, including BIOS, BMC/IPMI firmware, and system configurations.
- Support secure production environments, including customer deployments and platform upgrades.
- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis across software, infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and hardware platforms.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 2+ years of experience in Linux system administration, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or deployment engineering.
- Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, system services, package management, and fault isolation/resolution.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience with Ansible, infrastructure automation, cluster provisioning, or configuration management tools.
- Knowledge of Linux networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, and network diagnostics.
- Understanding of Linux file systems, storage technologies, and system-level analysis.
- Familiarity with server hardware, operating system deployment, and hardware-software dependencies.
- Experience installing, configuring, validating, and supporting software solutions in Linux-based environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with Linux system administration, platform integration, and infrastructure support in enterprise or production environments, including Linux networking, file systems, storage technologies, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, cluster provisioning solutions, infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment orchestration.
- Strong scripting and software development skills using Python, Bash, or similar languages to automate installation, validation, monitoring, and operational workflows.
- Experience deploying, administering, and troubleshooting Kubernetes, containerized applications, and distributed computing environments.
- Understanding of Linux device drivers, kernel modules, operating system internals, hardware-software dependencies, and platform integration.
- Experience evaluating and qualifying server platforms, including BIOS, BMC/IPMI firmware, hardware health, and system configurations across enterprise server technologies.
- Experience with high-performance networking technologies, including Mellanox/NVIDIA networking solutions, RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and high-speed Ethernet infrastructures.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and cluster health management frameworks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with modern software delivery practices including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Helm, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated release management methodologies.
- Experience supporting secure, mission-critical, or air-gapped production environments, including customer deployments, platform upgrades, and critical issue resolution.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with vendors, cross-functional engineering teams, and customers.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally to support platform qualification, deployment, installation, and customer-facing activities.
Skills: Linux system administration, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, Python, device drivers, GPU-accelerated computing
This role has been open 37 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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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 (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 20 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 209 | 6136 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 93 d | 50 d (+43 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Linux system administration, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, Python, device drivers, GPU-accelerated computing
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.