Performance Benchmark Engineer/Lead - Server CPU

Job Summary

Performance Benchmark Lead Server CPU (3 to 12+ Years Experience)

Location: Bangalore

Role Type: Senior Technical Lead / Team Lead

Domain: ARMv9 Server Platforms, CPU Performance

Role Summary

Lead Qualcomms server CPU performance benchmarking and optimization efforts for next-generation ARMv9 platforms. Own performance strategy, guide a team of performance engineers, and drive end-to-end analysis across silicon, firmware, kernel, and workloads.

Key Responsibilities Leadership Strategy

• Lead and mentor a team of performance engineers.
• Define performance KPIs, benchmarking strategy, and roadmap.
• Drive alignment across architecture, silicon, firmware, kernel, compiler, and workload teams.

Benchmarking Characterization

• Lead SPEC CPU, SPECjbb, SPECrate, cloud workload analysis.
• Characterize CPU, memory, I/O, NUMA, ARMv9 features.

Regression Monitoring

• Own regression detection and CI/CD automation.
• Track KPIs across firmware, software, and hardware.

Root Cause Optimization

• Lead investigations using PMU counters, perf, VTune, Streamline.
• Guide kernel, BIOS/UEFI, compiler, SVE/SVE2 optimizations.

Customer Partner Engagement

• Validate workloads for hyperscalers, Kubernetes, enterprise.
• Support OEM/ODM benchmarking and field issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years in CPU performance engineering/system software.
• Strong Python, Bash, C/C++.
• Deep microarchitecture, memory, NUMA, PCIe/CXL understanding.
• ARMv9/SVE/SVE2, virtualization, firmware experience.
• Hands-on with SPEC suites, cloud-native benchmarks.
• Leadership experience.

Ideal Attributes

• Analytical, data-driven, strong debugging.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.