Job Title: Software Engineer (Linux, benchmarks)
Job Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
job Duration: 6 months
Job Description
Resume must state candidate is willing to relocate if non local due to the occasional need to visit the Oregon site. ***
Hybrid (or onsite)-not fully remote. candidate must be flexible to spend time on site as needed. Please do NOT submit REMOTE only candidates.
In this position, you will be a member of the Data Center and AI team. This team is responsible for enabling Intel Sales and Marketing teams as well as Intel customers with benchmarking proof points that highlight Intel capabilities and benefits.
You will be performing Cloud instance benchmarking on leading Cloud Service Provider platforms as well as performing the same benchmarking on bare meteal servers.
Key responsibilities include evaluating performance using industry standard benchmarks, commercial and/or open source applications, developing test automation test scripts and evaluating key technologies that drive performance. We are looking for a candidate that is well versed in Linux, networking, who can set up machines/clusters/instances, compile kernels, load OS's, configure networks and storage, run benchmarks and debug associated problems as they come along. In addition, programming experience to write micro benchmarks to stress server systems is a plus.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Evaluating cloud instance and server performance using both internal and external benchmarks and applications
- Responsible for adapting existing tests, benchmarks, and applications
- Develop new tests or adapt workloads to test/stress architectural features for server processors
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS in EE/CS/other engineering discipline
- Minimum of 3 years experience in:
o Compiling and running server benchmarks such as SPEC CPU, SPECjbb, Wordpress PHP, Linpack, Stream, LMBench, HammerDB, HiBench, MLPerf, etc.
o Web Serving, Transcoding, LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Hadoop, Memcached, Java benchmarking experience.
o Linux and Windows operating system expertise
o Re-building kernels, compiling open source code or projects, LAMP stack
o C, C++, Java, and/or scripting languagessuch as Python and/or BASH
o Debugging and troubleshooting PC, workstation, or server solutions
o Familiarity working with Cloud Instances (IaaS VMs)
o Setting up server systems/clusters, compile kernels, load OS's, configure networks and storage.
o Self-starter and motivated. Get the work done attitude.
o Microsoft* Excel and PowerPoint
- Prior experience with system configuration, testing and benchmarking ideal