Lead Engineer- Hardware Offload (Client: Akamai) [Location: Remote (USA) ]

 Location: Remote (USA)

Job Description:

• Heavy 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.

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.
• Deliver technical recommendations and kernel/user-space code enhancements to maximize platform throughput.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.