Job Details

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
• bility 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