Systems Engineer

TPI Global Solutions

Austin, TX

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Temporary, Contractor, Full-time
SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bash Scripting, Benchmarking, C Programming Language, C++ Programming Language, CPU (Central Processing Unit), Communication Skills, Competitive Analysis/Strategy, Computer Architecture, Computer Systems, Data Collection, Hardware Quality Assurance, Industry Standards, Input/Output, Linux Operating System, Memory Hardware, Operating Systems, PCI Express (PCI-E), Performance Analysis, Performance Metrics, Performance Testing, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Server Architecture, System Architecture, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Systems Engineering, Test Automation, Validation Testing
LOCATION
Austin, TX
POSTED
5 days ago
Summary
  • Hardware validation role focused on performance validation of next generation *server architecture and AI accelerators.
Education
  • Bachelors degree is required for candidates.
Location
  • Hybrid onsite (3 days a week minimum) is required.
Day to Day Responsibilities
  • Analyzing benchmarks and performance key performance metrics of next generation *servers and AI accelerators.
  • Research trade-offs for our server architecture, especially as related to the memory hierarchy, storage systems, scheduling, and I/O devices.
  • Collect data from benchmark results, data from CPU performance counters, and other related performance information to identify bottlenecks and other performance limitations of the benchmark itself, SoC and system.
  • Evaluate system performance by executing industry standard benchmarks.
  • Thorough understanding of OS fundamentals and how they impact Performance of a system.
Required Experience
  • Experience using Linux performance analysis tools and methods.
  • Experience executing industry standard benchmarks or other performance test workloads.
  • Test automation experience.
  • Highly motivated independent contributor with a strong desire to learn and develop a deep understanding of the technology.
  • Understanding of computer system architecture.
  • Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++. BASH, Python, etc).
  • Experience using AI tools like Claude, Copilot and more.
  • Communicates and collaborates well with others.
  • Experience with PCIe testing and hardware validation.
Preferred Experience
  • Experience with benchmarks such as STREAM, multichase, SPECCPU2017, HPL, DGEMM, GUPS, SPECJbb and others.
  • Experience with I/O benchmarks and tools such as Infiniband, iPerf3, FIO and others.
  • Experience benchmarking memory technologies such as DDR5, CXL, HBM and others.
  • Experience benchmarking AI products and using various LLM benchmarks.
  • Competitive analysis as it relates to server architectures and AI workloads.

About the Company

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