Junior Software Performance Engineer

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Who We Are

Become part of Intel's VMware Center of Excellence, a specialized team focused on optimizing virtualization software performance on Intel server platforms and accelerators. Our team drives critical performance innovations that enable customers to maximize the value of their data center investments. We work at the intersection of hardware and software, ensuring Intel platforms deliver exceptional performance for virtualized workloads across enterprise and cloud environments.

Who You Are

This role is in the Software and AI group as a Junior Software Performance Engineer. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Working cross-functionally with software, firmware, and silicon teams to define performance targets and optimization methodologies
• Conducting performance and power analysis using industry-standard benchmarks and customer workloads
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities in virtualization software stacks
• Developing and enhancing innovative tools for performance analysis using C/C++, Python, and modern AI technologies
• Creating performance optimization guidance for operating systems, hypervisors, and related software components
• Documenting performance best practices and optimization guides for internal teams and external stakeholders
• Supporting customers and OEMs in optimizing their virtualized systems and software configurations
• Providing silicon design and firmware teams with performance insights and optimization recommendations
• Driving performance improvements that advance the state of the art in virtualization efficiency
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

You must possess the minimum education requirements and minimum required qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Additional preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Qualifications

The candidate must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or STEM related field with at least 1+ years of relevant experience -OR- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or STEM related field

• 6+ months of coursework or experience in software development using Python, C, and C++
• 6+ months of coursework or experience of Operating System architecture, including system-level development and optimization specifically the scheduler, IO and memory sub-systems
• 6+ months of coursework or experience of CPU/GPU architecture and hardware virtualization

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge in x86
• Experience with compilers and optimization techniques
• Industry experience in engineering roles for HW/SW development (including internships)
• Familiarity with performance analysis tools and methodologies
• Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen, or similar)
• Knowledge of Confidential Computing
• Understanding benchmarking and workload characterization
• Knowledge of Linux system administration and performance tuning

Key skills/competency

• Performance Analysis
• Software Optimization
• Virtualization Technologies
• C/C++ Programming
• Python Scripting
• Operating System Architecture
• CPU/GPU Architecture
• System-level Development
• Benchmarking
• Linux Performance Tuning