System Engineer, Jr with Security Clearance

Introduction A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. Your role and responsibilities * We are seeking a Junior Hardware Benchmark Engineer with an active U.S. Government TS/SCI security clearance and Full Scope Polygraph to support our hardware performance testing initiatives. This role blends hands-on technical work with innovative problem-solving, focusing on the design, development, and implementation of advanced benchmark solutions for next-generation AI/ML hardware platforms. As part of our team, you will contribute to the creation of comprehensive performance analysis frameworks, optimize testing strategies, and validate complex hardware systems across a range of CPU and AI accelerator architectures. The ideal candidate will have experience with traditional hardware benchmarking as well as an interest in modern AI/ML workload characterization, with an emphasis on scalable and maintainable testing architectures. Required education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * REQUIRED ON DAY 1: Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance Full Scope Polygraph

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 1 years' experience in hardware performance engineering or related field
• High proficiency in Bash, systems engineering and troubleshooting
• Experience implementing/running hardware benchmark solutions
• Comfortable with various CPU/GPU architectures
• Knowledge of cross-architecture development (x86_64, ARM64, RISC-V)
• Experience explaining technical concepts to non-technical users
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with air-gapped development Preferred technical and professional experience * Experience with stress-ng testing suite
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and benchmark result validation
• Experience/Interest in AI/ML frameworks like PyTorch or vLLM
• Knowledge of safeguards in hardware performance testing to prevent hardware damage ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. 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Eligible employees may have access to: * Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being * Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs * Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. 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