ByteDance
System Performance Engineer - Server Platform
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred: 5 years in CPU/GPU platform architecture, application performance optimization design, and/or software-hardware co-design.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related major.
- Visa sponsorship
- International travel up to four times per year, including but not limited to China, Europe, and South Asia; candidates must have a valid passport and be able to obtain necessary visas.
About the job
Optimizes server-system performance by developing benchmarks, profiling workloads, resolving performance issues, and evaluating hardware and architecture designs.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize server benchmarks, set component performance targets with engineering teams and vendors, and resolve performance issues.
- Develop workload profiling with application teams and optimize performance for applications on specific hardware.
- Evaluate server architectures, cloud services, and new hardware; research emerging technologies and standards with industry groups.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related major.
- Deep understanding of computer system architecture, especially CPU SoC or platform architecture, interconnect fabric, and memory subsystems.
- Experience in system performance optimization or software-hardware co-design; understanding of CPU virtualization and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functional teams.
Nice to have
- 5 years of experience in CPU/GPU platform architecture, application performance optimization design, and/or software-hardware co-design.
Tools
CPU SoC, Interconnect Fabric, Memory
AI focus
Works with AI-computing workloads and evaluates server systems for AI applications.
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