Hardware Validation Engineer - Senior Job at TekWissen ® in Austin

Hardware Validation Engineer - Senior

Work Location: Austin TX 78728

Duration: 6 Months

Work Type: Temporary Assignment

Job Type: Hybrid

Base Pay Range: $50.00/hr - $50.00/hr

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. This client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

Job Description

• Hardware validation role focused on performance validation of next generation client server architecture and AI accelerators.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Analyzing benchmarks and performance characteristics of next generation client 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.

Required Experience

• Experience using Linux performance analysis tools and methods.
• Experience executing industry standard benchmarks or other performance test workloads.
• Highly motivated independent contributor with a strong desire to learn and develop a deep understanding of the technology.
• Understanding of computer system architecture.
• 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.
• Competitive analysis as it relates to server architectures and AI workloads.

Education

• Bachelor's degree is required for candidates.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.