Performance and Benchmarking Engineer

Performance and Benchmarking Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 6+ Years

Education: B.E. / B.Tech. / M.E. / M.Tech. in Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline

Domain: Linux Performance Engineering, CPU/GPU/NPU Benchmarking

Top Mandatory Skills

1. Strong Linux kernel programming and OS internals knowledge
2. CPU, GPU, and NPU benchmarking and performance analysis
3. C/C++, Python, and Bash scripting for profiling and automation

Additional Mandatory Skills

• Hands-on experience with Linux, preferably Ubuntu or Embedded Linux
• Strong understanding of CPU/GPU architecture and kernel-level performance concepts
• x86 or ARM architecture experience, with x86 preferred
• System-level performance debugging and bottleneck analysis
• Linux profiling tools such as perf, ftrace, turbostat, and VTune
• OS, kernel, scheduler, thermal, and power optimization
• Benchmark automation, log processing, and result analysis
• BIOS, firmware, and OS configuration tuning

Key Responsibilities

• Execute CPU, GPU, and NPU performance benchmarks on Linux-based platforms.
• Design and own repeatable benchmarking and profiling workflows.
• Analyze kernel logs, system behaviour, traces, and profiling results.
• Tune Linux OS, kernel, scheduler, BIOS, firmware, thermal, and power settings.
• Identify performance bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, kernel, drivers, and applications.
• Develop Python, Bash, and C/C++ scripts for test execution, log parsing, monitoring, and reporting.
• Automate benchmarking workflows across Linux and embedded environments.
• Convert raw benchmark and profiling data into actionable engineering insights.
• Debug system, firmware, driver, and software issues during platform setup and benchmark execution.
• Document benchmark configurations, findings, tuning actions, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with platform, kernel, firmware, BIOS, driver, and validation teams.

Preferred Experience

• Performance optimization on Ubuntu, Yocto, Android, or Embedded Linux
• Linux kernel, device-driver, or system software development
• Knowledge of CPU scheduling, memory management, cache, interrupts, thermal throttling, and power management
• Experience evaluating heterogeneous compute platforms containing CPU, GPU, and NPU accelerators
• Profiling and debugging using perf, ftrace, turbostat, VTune, kernel logs, and related tools
• Experience with Git and JIRA
• Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills
• Self-driven and ownership-oriented approach to system-level debugging