Staff Engineer - AI Workload Benchmarking

San Jose, CA, US • Posted 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago
Contract W2
On-site
USD 70.00 per hour
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Job Details

Skills

  • Leadership
  • DRAM
  • SSD
  • NAND
  • Roadmaps
  • Systems Design
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Performance Engineering
  • Performance Analysis
  • Caching
  • File Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Training
  • PyTorch
  • Vector Databases
  • Linux
  • GPU
  • Storage
  • Python
  • Benchmarking
  • Data Analysis
  • Visualization
  • C
  • C++

Summary

Job Description

Onsite in San Jose, CA

Positioning:
Align benchmarking insights to our leadership in memory (HBM, DRAM, CXL) and storage (SSD/NAND) to inform product roadmaps.
Enable next-generation AI infrastructure solutions through performance-driven system design, validation, and standards engagement.

Requirements
Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
Professional experience in systems performance engineering, storage performance, or AI infrastructure benchmarking.
Demonstrated expertise with NVMe SSDs and storage stack performance analysis (block layer, page cache, file systems, asynchronous I/O).
Hands-on experience with AI/ML workloads - LLM training and inference frameworks (PyTorch, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or equivalent), embedding pipelines, or vector databases (FAISS, Milvus, DiskANN, HNSW).
Strong proficiency with Linux performance and tracing tools: blktrace, perf, eBPF/bpftrace, ftrace, BCC, iostat, fio.
Working knowledge of GPU systems and accelerator I/O paths
Experience designing and executing benchmarks against industry standards (MLPerf Storage, or equivalent).
Proficiency in Python for benchmarking automation, data analysis, and visualization; comfort with C/C++ for systems-level work.
Proven ability to deliver structured technical reports, characterization studies, and reproducible benchmark artifacts to a senior engineering audience.

Requirements:
Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
Professional experience in systems performance engineering, storage performance, or AI infrastructure benchmarking.
Demonstrated expertise with NVMe SSDs and storage stack performance analysis (block layer, page cache, file systems, asynchronous I/O).
Hands-on experience with AI/ML workloads LLM training and inference frameworks (PyTorch, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or equivalent), embedding pipelines, or vector databases (FAISS, Milvus, DiskANN, HNSW).
Strong proficiency with Linux performance and tracing tools: blktrace, perf, eBPF/bpftrace, ftrace, BCC, iostat, fio.
Working knowledge of GPU systems and accelerator I/O paths
Experience designing and executing benchmarks against industry standards (MLPerf Storage, or equivalent).
Proficiency in Python for benchmarking automation, data analysis, and visualization; comfort with C/C++ for systems-level work.
Proven ability to deliver structured technical reports, characterization studies, and reproducible benchmark artifacts to a senior engineering audience.
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  • Dice Id: wesca004
  • Position Id: JOB-7177
  • Posted 7 hours ago
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Rafael Barraza

Rafael Barraza

West Coast Consulting LLC Recruiter @ West Coast Consulting LLC
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