Senior Principal Engineer

Folsom, CA, US • Posted 5 hours ago • Updated 5 hours ago
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Skills

  • C++
  • Linux
  • Vector Databases

Summary

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Duration: 6+ months contract

Location: Folsom, CA (Onsite)

Pay Range: $85/hr to $95/hr on w2

Description:

  • Enable vector database frameworks such as DiskANN, Milvus, and related retrieval/search pipelines on an FPGA-accelerated platform
  • Modify and optimize software stacks so that distance computation and related vector operations can be offloaded to FPGA-based storage or accelerator device Design and integrate host-side software paths to issue custom or vendor-specific NVMe commands for computation offload
  • Develop and optimize I/O submission/completion paths using modern Linux interfaces such as io_uring
  • Analyze existing VectorDB execution flows and identify where offload can be inserted with minimal software disruption
  • Debug full-stack issues spanning application software, libraries, kernel/user-space I/O paths, NVMe protocol behavior, and FPGA device responses.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • Strong programming skills in C/C++ and experience with performance-oriented system software development
  • Hands-on experience with vector databases, similarity search, or ANN frameworks such as DiskANN, Milvus, FAISS, or related systems.
  • Good understanding of Linux systems programming, storage I/O, and asynchronous I/O models
  • Familiarity with NVMe protocol, command structure, submission/completion queues, and storage performance concepts.
  • Experience analyzing and modifying open source software stacks for performance optimization and platform integration
  • Strong debugging and profiling skills across user-space and system-level software.

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  • Dice Id: xorca001
  • Position Id: 560766
  • Posted 5 hours ago

Company Info

About Xoriant Corporation

Xoriant is a Sunnyvale, CA headquartered digital engineering firm with offices in the USA, Europe, and Asia. From Tech Startups to Fortune 100 Enterprises, we enable innovation, accelerate time to market, and ensure client competitiveness across industries. Across all our focus areas – platform engineering, cloud, data & and AI, and Security – every solution we develop benefits from our product engineering DNA and culture of innovation. It also includes successful methodologies, framework components, and accelerators for rapidly solving critical client challenges. For 30 years and counting, we have taken great pride in the longlasting, deep relationships we have with our clients.

For further information about Xoriant, please visit our website

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