Performance Engineer @ Hillsboro, OR

Job Title: Performance Engineer Location: Hillsboro, OR Duration: 6 Months Remote role but preference to candidates in Oregon close to the Intel site as there is a 5% chance that they may need to go onsite and if so it would be brief. In this position, you will be a member of the Data Center and AI team. This team is responsible for enabling Intel Sales and Marketing teams as well as Intel customers with benchmarking proof points that highlight Intel capabilities and benefits. You will be performing Cloud instance benchmarking on leading Cloud Service Provider platforms. Key responsibilities include evaluating performance using industry standard benchmarks, commercial and/or open source applications, developing test automation test scripts and evaluating key technologies that drive performance. We are looking for a candidate that is well versed in Linux, networking, who can set up machines/clusters/instances, compile kernels, load OS's, configure networks and storage, run benchmarks and debug associated problems as they come along. In addition, programming experience to write micro benchmarks to stress server systems is a plus. Your responsibilities will include: - Evaluating cloud instance and server performance using both internal and external benchmarks and applications - Responsible for adapting existing tests, benchmarks, and applications - Develop new tests or adapt workloads to test/stress architectural features for server processors Minimum Qualifications: - BS in EE/CS/other engineering discipline - Minimum of 3 years' experience in: o Compiling and running server benchmarks such as SPEC CPU, SPECjbb, Wordpress PHP, Linpack, Stream, LMBench, HammerDB, HiBench, MLPerf, etc. o Web Serving, Transcoding, LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Hadoop, Memcached, Java benchmarking experience. o Linux and Windows operating system expertise o Re-building kernels, compiling open source code or projects, LAMP stack o C, C, Java, and/or scripting languages o Debugging and troubleshooting PC, workstation, or server solutions o Familiarity working with Cloud Instances (IaaS VMs) o Setting up server systems/clusters, compile kernels, load OS's, configure networks and storage. o Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint - Prior experience with system configuration, testing and benchmarking ideal Min of a BS degree is required; no exceptions