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Your Role and Responsibilities

The IBM Z Software Performance team is responsible for designing, executing, and analyzing stress workloads/benchmarks on the IBM Z and LinuxONE systems to ensure these systems meet customer expectations.

As a Software Performance Analyst/Tester you will design and create benchmarks and stress workloads, execute performance measurements with those benchmarks and workloads, analyze the performance measurements, and guide Hardware, Operating System, and Software Development teams on performance improvements collaborating with a global IBM team.

• Design and implement benchmarks and stress workloads for AIU IO Card and keep them current

• Set up benchmarks and stress workloads and the underlying AIU IO Card configuration for different performances.

• Automate performance measurements and data collection for benchmarks and stress workloads

• Develop and enhance data collection and analysis tools

• Execute performance benchmarks and stress workload

• Analyze the performance measurements and collected data for performance issues and bottlenecks

• Guide Development teams across the stack (IBM Z Hardware/IBM Research, IBM AIU application stack, Middleware/Applications) on the fixing of performance issues due to configurations.

• USP : Working on Systems which consist of AIU IO cards which are developed for creating a platform for training and analysis of IBM Large Language Models for Generative AI.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

As Individual Developer

• Overall experience of 6-10 years in performance measurement, analysis and system testing skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer science, Information Science.

• Basic ML/AI model architecture, training, and inferencing knowledge

• 3 years experience with Pytorch

• Source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting language and test automation skills

• Linux administration basic skills

• Experience working with (docker/podman) containers

• Programming languages: Python, C/C++, Bash

• English (fluent) language skills

Keywords: System Testing AND Performance analysis/measurement AND PyTorch AND DOcker/Podman AND Python, c/c++, Bash AND Linux Skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Master

• Know-how in AI transformer model design or modification

• Experience in TensorFlow and model inference serving (TF serving, Nvidia Triton, vLLM)

• Experience with hardware design and debugging skills

• Experience in performance profiling (Linux perf) and tracing

• Linux administration advanced skills

• AI accelerator hardware architecture knowledge (GPU, TPU, AMX)

• Programming languages: Cuda, Java

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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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