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Staff Engineer - AI Workload Benchmarking Posted 06/18/26

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Protingent

San Jose, CA (In Person)

$145,600 Salary, Full-Time

Posted 1 week ago (Updated 2 days ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 7/23/2026

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Job Description

Staff Engineer•AI Workload Benchmarking San Jose, CA 95134
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:
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, Disk
ANN, 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;fort 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 offerspetitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-taxmuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.