Introduction As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.
Your Role and Responsibilities As a HW performance Analyst you will lead the hardware bringup, Pre-silicon & post-silicon performance validation, Performance monitoring unit validation and work closely with hardware development team to ensure model performance and the hardware performance correlates. You are also responsible to ensure server class systems IBM develops meet its performance objective and targets. You will also be responsible for leading modelling effort of key sub-systems like cache, interconnect, memory controller etc. As a performance lead you will also be working on exploring & implementing innovative ways to improve next generation POWER processor/system performance across cache, memory subsystem, interconnects etc. You will be part of highly experienced and talented team of engineers doing processor/system performance modeling, hardware bringup, Pre-silicon verification & post-silicon validation and microarchitecture development and will work closely with Processor/System design architects. "AAs a Hardware Performance Analyst your responsibilities would be to work on multiple HW performance projects
Develop test and validation plan for hardware bringup, pre-silicon performance verification and post-silicon performance validation
Develop kernels and methodologies to correlate software model with hardware performance.
Interact and collaborate with hardware, software and firmware development teams during system bringup and ensure the system meets its performance objectives
Root causing of fails in simulation for performance changes/difference between Hardware and simulator
Build automation frameworks, test cases and result analysis scripts.
Design and develop model to simulate sub-systems like cache, interconnect and memory protocols
Working with Architects/Research teams for optimizing architecture and system design, improving performance of next generation POWER processor and system.
Demonstrate leadership in characterizing benchmarks, workloads and use cases (application code), and proposing system design optimisations to improve system level performance.
Independently own system unit and successfully drive performance missions."
Experience in performing hardware performance validation and correlation
Experience in server class system bringup and optimization
Good understanding of Processor microarchitecture, System architecture, Memory & IO subsystem architecture
Demonstrate leadership in characterizing benchmarks, workloads and use cases and proposing microarchitectural optimizations
Understanding architecture and micro-architecture features of POWER processor core and system.
Good communication & presentation skills and to work with geographically distributed collaborators
Ability to learn new areas quickly"
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
"Knowledge of Compilers
Knowledge of Assembley Programming"
About Business Unit
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.
This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.
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