560766-Senior Systems Engineer, NVMe & FPGA Acceleration

This position requires

• Clear Background, Drug Test, and Education Check. Must be authorized to work in the US for any employer without Sponsorship. (Principal Only! No Corp to Corp )

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Position Title:

560766-

Senior Systems Engineer, NVMe & FPGA Acceleration Location:

Folsom, CA Pay Rate:

$85

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Contract Duration:

6 months contract

Description:

• Enable vector database frameworks such as DiskANN, Milvus, and related retrieval/search pipelines on an FPGA-accelerated platform
• Modify and optimize software stacks so that distance computation and related vector operations can be offloaded to FPGA-based storage or accelerator device
• Design and integrate host-side software paths to issue custom or vendor-specific NVMe commands for computation offload
• Develop and optimize I/O submission/completion paths using modern Linux interfaces such as io_uring
• Analyze existing VectorDB execution flows and identify where offload can be inserted with minimal software disruption
• Debug full-stack issues spanning application software, libraries, kernel/user-space I/O paths, NVMe protocol behavior, and FPGA device responses.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and experience with performance-oriented system software development
• Hands-on experience with vector databases, similarity search, or ANN frameworks such as DiskANN, Milvus, FAISS, or related systems.
• Good understanding of Linux systems programming, storage I/O, and asynchronous I/O models
• Familiarity with NVMe protocol, command structure, submission/completion queues, and storage performance concepts.
• Experience analyzing and modifying open source software stacks for performance optimization and platform integration
• Strong debugging and profiling skills across user-space and system-level software.

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560766-Senior Systems Engineer, NVMe & FPGA Acceleration to the email Subject Line. Or click this email link and attach your resume in a MS Word Document format