Performance Engineer

Job Description:

Client: HCL

Job Title: OS/VM performance engineer

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: 6+ months with possible extension

Responsibility :

Looking for an OS/VM performance engineer to design and run experiments to quantify the performance of new processors, especially in a virtualized environment.

Focus is on Virtual Machines or on Virtualized Environments.

The ideal candidate will have a passion to find performance bottleneck surprises, a curious self-starting explorer that makes tests and gathers evidence to make conclusions.

(Might be finding bugs, measuring mitigations, or baselining for the future.)

Skills Required

• • BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or closely related field

• • Experience in and around performance measurement and benchmarking on PC's or Server Platforms.

• • Experience with C, bonus for C++ (C++11 or newer)

• • Experience measuring and improving software performance (any language, any OS)

• • Experience with Windows and Linux internals: thread services such as priority, affinity, synchronization, atomics

• • Familiarity with hardware device drivers (any OS), using registers to control hardware.

• • Experience collecting data, then analyzing and presenting findings

• • Ability to effectively define, prioritize, and complete tasks asynchronously.

• Preferred:

• • Familiar with workload analysis and profiling tools in Linux and Windows environment.

• • Experience porting Linux C/C++ code to Windows

• • Familiarity with similarities and differences between Windows and Linux internals

• • Scripting (bonus for PowerShell or Python)

• • Familiarity with 32-bit or 64-bit assembly (any processor