Hardware Validation Engineer

Hardware Validation Engineer

Job Description

Summary
Hardware validation role focused on performance validation of next generation server architecture and AI accelerators.

Education
Bachelors degree is required for candidates.

Day to Day Responsibilities
Analyzing benchmarks and performance key performance metrics of next generation client servers and AI accelerators.
Research trade-offs for our server architecture, especially as related to the memory hierarchy, storage systems, scheduling, and I/O devices.
Collect data from benchmark results, data from CPU performance counters, and other related performance information to identify bottlenecks and other performance limitations of the benchmark itself, SoC and system.
Evaluate system performance by executing industry standard benchmarks.
Thorough understanding of OS fundamentals and how they impact Performance of a system.

Required Experience
Experience using Linux performance analysis tools and methods.
Experience executing industry standard benchmarks or other performance test workloads.
Test automation experience.
Highly motivated independent contributor with a strong desire to learn and develop a deep understanding of the technology.
Understanding of computer system architecture.
Programming/scripting skills (e.g. C/C++. BASH, Python, etc).
Experience using AI tools like Claude, Copilot and more.
Communicates and collaborates well with others.
Experience with PCIe testing and hardware validation.

Preferred Experience
Experience with benchmarks such as STREAM, multichase, SPECCPU2017, HPL, DGEMM, GUPS, SPECJbb and others.
Experience with I/O benchmarks and tools such as Infiniband, iPerf3, FIO and others.
Experience benchmarking memory technologies such as DDR5, CXL, HBM and others.
Experience benchmarking AI products and using various LLM benchmarks.
Competitive analysis as it relates to server architectures and AI workloads.

Notes:
Location
Hybrid onsite (3 days a week minimum) is required.

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.