System and Software Optimization Engineer – Fixed Term Contract

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Gdansk, Poland

This role focuses on optimizing and validating the performance of Intel Xeon CPUs across various workloads, including AI, HPC, and databases, within data center environments. The engineer will design, automate, and execute performance tests, analyze results, and contribute to materials for tech press and sales, ultimately enhancing next-generation data center products. Experience with cloud, containers, virtualization, and infrastructure as code is essential.

What you'd actually do

  1. design, automate, execute, and analyze results of performance tests
  2. assessing pre-production hardware and using ever-evolving set of tools and workloads
  3. gather reliable power, performance, and competitive data representative of customer use cases
  4. turned into materials that get published in the tech press or used during Intel events and drive CPU sales
  5. enhance the next generation data center products

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of IT-related professional experience
  • 3+ years of experience in system configuration/administration
  • Experience with virtualization or container solutions
  • Experience with provisioning tools e.g. Openstack Ironic
  • Ability to quickly learn and adapt
  • Intermediate command of English

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Analytical mindset
  • Problem solving skills
  • Attention to details
  • Experience with public clouds
  • Experience with Ansible or similar solution
  • Experience in platform benchmarking or performance tuning

What the JD emphasized

  • performance validation
  • performance and competitive benchmarking
  • AI workloads