Hardware Systems Engineer - Data Center HWE

Sunnyvale, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-03 → 2026-09-28

Core

Evaluate next-generation server platforms and guide strategic processor selection to optimize cloud-scale compute infrastructure for accuracy, understandability, and performance.

Role type

Senior IC server hardware engineer (CPU architecture & performance)

Builds

Compute cloud infrastructure (x86, ARM, accelerator-enabled systems)

Domain

Cloud computing + CPU architecture

Required skills

CPU architecture evaluation, microbenchmarking, workload profiling, Kubernetes optimization, TCO modeling, performance modeling, NUMA/SMT analysis, vendor roadmap evaluation

Preferred skills

Hyperscaler experience, power/performance tuning, BIOS/firmware optimization, SmartNIC/GPU architecture knowledge, internal dashboard development

Technologies

Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, ARM, Kubernetes, KVM, SPEC, fio, sysbench, perf, pmu-tools, Prometheus, Grafana, eBPF

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