System Performance Engineer - Server Platform

ByteDance ByteDance · Big Tech · San Jose, CA · R&D

The Server platform team is responsible for architecting, designing, and building server and storage systems for high-performance, low cost, and easy operation. This role focuses on optimizing server system benchmarks, collaborating with hardware engineers and vendors on performance targets, and working with application teams to profile and optimize performance for various workloads including AI computing. The role also involves evaluating new architectural designs, assessing cloud services and hardware, and contributing to industry standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build up and optimize server system benchmarks based on deep understanding of server system architect, key part performance matrix, and workload characterization.
  2. Co-work with CPU, memory, IO controller, SSD engineers and vendors to setup the right performance target for the key parts for the server system. Solve performance related issues.
  3. Based on a good understanding of mainstream applications, database, big data, storage, AI computing, profiling, co-work with application team to work out and update the workload profiling system. Work with the application team to solve performance problems and make sure to achieve the best performance on certain hardware.
  4. Co-work with server system architects to evaluate new architect design.
  5. Co-work with cloud vendors, equipment vendors to evaluate the performance of cloud service or newly introduced hardware.

Skills

Required

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related majors
  • Deep understanding of computer system architecture, especially on CPU SoC or Platform Architecture, Interconnect Fabric, and Memory sub-system
  • Experienced in system performance optimization or software hardware co-design
  • Understand the implementation of CPU virtualization technology, and distributed system
  • Demonstrated experience of working collaboratively in cross-functional teams

Nice to have

  • 5 years experience in CPU/GPU platform architecture, and/or application performance optimization design or software hardware co-design