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Staff Engineer - AI Workload Benchmarking
Posted: 06/18/2026
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 31966
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: SEMI - Semiconductor
Job Description
Job Title: Staff Engineer - AI Workload Benchmarking
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Staff Engineer - AI Workload Benchmarking with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Staff Engineer - AI Workload Benchmarking with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Responsibilities:
- Align benchmarking insights to the leadership in memory (HBM, DRAM, CXL) and storage (SSD/NAND) to inform product roadmaps.
- Enable next-generation AI infrastructure solutions through performance-driven system design, validation, and standards engagement.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Professional experience in systems performance engineering, storage performance, or AI infrastructure benchmarking.
- Demonstrated expertise with NVMe SSDs and storage stack performance analysis (block layer, page cache, file systems, asynchronous I/O).
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML workloads — LLM training and inference frameworks (PyTorch, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or equivalent), embedding pipelines, or vector databases (FAISS, Milvus, DiskANN, HNSW).
- Strong proficiency with Linux performance and tracing tools: blktrace, perf, eBPF/bpftrace, ftrace, BCC, iostat, fio.
- Working knowledge of GPU systems and accelerator I/O paths
- Experience designing and executing benchmarks against industry standards (MLPerf Storage, or equivalent).
- Proficiency in Python for benchmarking automation, data analysis, and visualization; comfort with C/C++ for systems-level work.
- Proven ability to deliver structured technical reports, characterization studies, and reproducible benchmark artifacts to a senior engineering audience.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $65 - $75 an hour.
- Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite).
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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