What are the responsibilities and job description for the Performance Benchmarking Engineer position at Ventana Micro Systems?
Ventana is building the highest-performance RISC-V CPUs on the planet—designed for data center, AI, and edge workloads, with real silicon, not slideware.
Our second-generation Veyron core (V2) is on track to ship early next year, featuring an aggressive wide-issue pipeline and built in 4nm. Development on Veyron V3 is ramping now, with even greater performance and deep AI platform integration. This is your opportunity to work alongside engineers who built iconic processors like the AMD K6 and the first 64-bit ARM server processor (X-Gene at AppliedMicro)—bringing decades of CPU innovation to a clean-slate, open-standards future. You can check us out here: Ventana Micro - YouTube
Performance Engineer
Requirements:
- 8 years of software development with C/C , Python
- 8-12 years of hands-on experience in performance benchmarking, performance tools, scripting, automation, and fault isolation on multi-core systems
- Recent first-hand experience running, profiling, and performance optimization of benchmarks like Dhrystone, Coremark, LMBench, STREAM, SPECCPU2017, SPECjbb2015, EEMBC...running in a Linux environment
- Hands on experience running, profiling, analyzing system bottlenecks and performance optimization of cloud workloads like Memcached, NGINX, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, HBase etc. running in a Linux environment
- Linux application and kernel performance optimization - knowledge of perf, oprofile, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks
- Knowledge of competitive benchmarking workloads across Intel, AMD & ARM64 platforms
- Real world experience with GNU/LLVM tool chain & debuggers like GDB
- Capable of working independently with across geos and functional disciplines (hardware, SQA & product management teams)
- Excellent debugging skills
- Strong communication skills, technical fluency, empathy, humility and an appreciation for and understanding of lean startup
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related engineering fields
Skills & Qualifications Desirable:
- Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86. RISC-V architectural knowledge would be an added plus
- Experience in performance optimization at the firmware, bios, kernel, and application layers including hardware accelerators
- Experience working in multi-core, multi-process/thread environment
- Knowledge of open-source Linux, git repository maintenance and source code management
BASE SALARY RANGE
$105,000 TO $260,000 per year
EEOE
Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
$105,000 TO $260,000 per year
EEOE
Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
COVID-19
Ventana encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted, if eligible) against COVID-19. We do require Proof of vaccination (or proof of a negative PCR test) to work in the office or meet with customers/ business partners.
NOTICE: External Recruiters/ Staffing Agencies:
Ventana Micro instructs agencies not to engage with its employees to present candidates. Employees are not authorized to enter into any agreement regarding the placement of candidates. All unsolicited resumes received as gratuitous
Ventana encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted, if eligible) against COVID-19. We do require Proof of vaccination (or proof of a negative PCR test) to work in the office or meet with customers/ business partners.
NOTICE: External Recruiters/ Staffing Agencies:
Ventana Micro instructs agencies not to engage with its employees to present candidates. Employees are not authorized to enter into any agreement regarding the placement of candidates. All unsolicited resumes received as gratuitous
Salary : $105,000 - $260,000