SoC Performance Analysis Engineers

Location: Hybrid

Pay Rate: $100–$140/hr, depending on level and experience

About the Role

We’re hiring three engineers to analyze and characterize multicore SoC performance in safety-critical, mixed-criticality systems. You’ll build the tooling and processes used to monitor cache, memory, and on-chip fabric behavior. You’ll also set the bandwidth and QoS limits that keep critical workloads deterministic. We have openings at two levels:

• • Senior Engineer (1 opening): 8+ years of SoC performance analysis experience
  • Principal Engineer (2 openings): 15+ years of overall experience, including 10+ years of SoC performance analysis. Principals also act as the top-level technical specialists on complex projects.

Must-Have Qualifications (Both Levels)

• • SoC performance analysis experience that includes building performance-monitoring tooling and processes
  • Experience monitoring usage, throughput, and contention of traffic through L2/L3 cache and the network-on-chip (NoC) / communication fabric between on-die elements
  • Proven ability to characterize and establish limits for bandwidth allocation, QoS values, channel priorities, and related mechanisms
  • Hands-on experience with Intel Tiger Lake, Ice Lake, and/or Alder Lake processors
  • AC 20-193 (multicore processor certification) experience. Strongly preferred, and candidates with it will be prioritized

What Strong Candidates Have Done

• • Developed tooling to monitor LLC occupancy, memory-controller bandwidth utilization, and inter-core interference using Intel PMU/uncore counters
  • Characterized worst-case latency from cache and fabric contention, and set QoS and bandwidth-allocation limits for mixed-criticality workloads
  • Built automated performance-monitoring infrastructure for Intel Xeon and Tiger Lake platforms to track cache misses, memory traffic, and QoS effectiveness

Responsibilities

• • Design, develop, modify, and implement software applications, operating systems, and performance-analysis tooling
  • Take part in testing through test review and analysis, test witnessing, and software certification
  • Lead, direct, and coordinate the work of team members, and provide technical support across the project
  • Principal level: provide consultation on the most complex projects as the program’s top-level contributor

Education

• • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

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