Lead Engineer- Hardware Offload IRC305610

GlobalLogic Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exciting Projects

Collaborative Environment

Work-Life Balance

Professional Development

Excellent Benefits

Job summary

GlobalLogic is seeking a Lead Engineer- Hardware Offload to advance high-performance ARM compute platforms. You will implement and optimize hardware offloading (SR-IOV, NFV) and assess interconnects like NVLink on ARM bare-metal hosts.

This role requires deep C/C++ systems programming, kernel-bypass techniques (DPDK, eBPF), and profiling to maximize throughput, latency and efficiency across distributed infrastructure.

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

C

NFV

Virtualization

SR-IOV

PCIe pass-through

eBPF

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

NVLink

DPDK

DMA drivers

Job description

Lead Engineer- Hardware Offload IRC305610

Function

IT, Telecom & Internet

Experience

5-10 years

Location

United States - San Jose CA

Skills

C, NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), Virtualization

• 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: 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 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, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.