Lead Engineer- Hardware Offload

Hitachi, Ltd.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exciting projects

Collaborative environment

Work from home

Professional development

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

GlobalLogic is seeking a skilled engineer to advance hardware offloading and interconnect optimizations on ARM bare-metal platforms. You will drive SR-IOV/NFV based networking, evaluate NVLink improvements, and profile PCIe bottlenecks for high-throughput systems.

The role emphasizes low-latency, high-performance kernel/user-space coding in C/C++, with a focus on DAC/DPDK/eBPF technologies and remote-friendly collaboration across GlobalLogic centers.

Qualifications

• Deliver technical recommendations and kernel/user-space code enhancements to maximize platform throughput.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize hardware-based network offloading (SR-IOV, NFV) for ARM bare-metal compute hosts.
• Investigate, integrate, and benchmark NVLink support for CPU-to-CPU interconnect performance improvements.
• Profile hardware bus bottlenecks, PCIe throughput, and latency characteristics on ARM superchip platforms.

Skills

Hardware offloading

SR-IOV

NFV

PCIe pass-through

C/C++

Kernel bypass

DPDK

eBPF

ARM bare-metal

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/EE/Math

Tools

NVLink

DMA drivers

Job description

Job Description

• Extensive experience in hardware offloading and systems performance tuning.
• Offload Technologies: Deep background in SR-IOV, NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), and PCIe device pass-through.
• System Programming: Mastery of C and C++ for bare-metal performance engineering.
• High-Speed Interconnects: Experience investigating or implementing hardware interconnect acceleration (such as NVLink CPU-to-CPU performance optimizations).
• Kernel Bypass: Knowledge of DPDK, eBPF, or direct memory access (DMA) drivers.

Requirements

• Deliver technical recommendations and kernel/user-space code enhancements to maximize platform throughput.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Job Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize hardware-based network offloading (SR-IOV, NFV) for ARM bare-metal compute hosts.
• Investigate, integrate, and benchmark NVLink support for CPU-to-CPU interconnect performance improvements.
• Profile hardware bus bottlenecks, PCIe throughput, and latency characteristics on ARM superchip platforms.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: GlobalLogic estimates the starting pay range for this role to be performed remotely to be $140,000 to $150,000 and reflects base salary only. This pay range is provided as a good-faith estimate, and the amount offered may be higher or lower. GlobalLogic takes many factors into consideration in making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.

What we offer

Exciting Projects:Come take your place at the forefront of digital transformation! With clients across all industries and sectors, we offer an opportunity to work on market-defining products using the latest technologies.

Collaborative Environment: You can expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment — or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!

Work-Life Balance:GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible work schedules and opportunities to work from home.

Professional Development:We provide continuing education classes, professional certification and training (technical, soft skills, language, and communication skills) to help you realize your professional goals. Being part of a global organization, there are additional learning opportunities through international knowledge exchanges.

Excellent Benefits:We provide our employees with competitive salaries, health and life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, a matched contribution 401K plan, flexible spending accounts, and PTO and holidays

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic is a full-lifecycle product development services leader that combines chip-to-cloud software engineering expertise and vertical industry experience to help our customers design, build, and deliver their next-generation products and digital experiences. We expertly integrate design, complex engineering, and agile delivery capabilities to deliver superior business outcomes for global brands in telecom, automotive, healthcare, technology, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and semiconductor industries.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, GlobalLogic employs over 25,000 designers and engineers across the globe. Analysts like NASSCOM and Zinnov have recognized us for being a top company in our field, and we are consistently nominated as a preferred employer by both global HR consultative firms and local job boards. By creating a work environment that is exciting and flexible, and by fostering growth through ongoing learning and development programs, we empower our employees to achieve both their professional and personal goals.

At GlobalLogic, we make amazing products — and careers.