Performance Engineer
OS/VM Performance Engineer
Client: HCL
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