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Factorial

Junior Performance Software Engineer

Factorial

Junior Performance Software Engineer optimizing popular AI and HPC applications for RISC-V chips. Working across teams to enhance performance and deliver best in class workload optimization.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeLimerick • 🇮🇪 IrelandJuniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AssemblyCloudDockerJMeterKubernetesLinuxOpen SourceRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments.
  • Optimize AI, HPC, and other workloads and benchmarks for our RISC-V silicon with vector extensions.
  • Identify bottlenecks with workload characterization and drive implementation of solutions.
  • Decompose applications and how they run on the underlying hardware.
  • Understand performance at a system level, from CPU, memory, storage, power utilization, etc.
  • Profile and optimize on our pre-silicon (simulators, emulators, FPGAS), and silicon environments.
  • Troubleshoot and root cause analysis, to resolve performance issues.
  • Optimize HPC and AI libraries and runtimes.
  • Work with customers to optimize their important workloads for our architecture.
  • Contribute to instrumentation of performance and power at the operating system level.
  • Integrate with CI/CD to automate performance benchmarking.
  • Present findings to senior technical leaders at our company and at industry conferences.
  • Contribute upstream where appropriate.
  • Interact with colleagues across projects to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics.
  • Work with hardware teams, influencing hardware/software co-design.
  • Work with teams developing compilers, firmware, AI stacks, middleware, etc., and contribute as necessary.
  • Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents,...
  • Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations...).

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
  • Experience in the relevant field (1-3yr).
  • Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache, memory hierarchy, buses, etc.).
  • Proven experience with performance optimization, and experience with performance profiling and analysis tools (Linux perf, iperf, lmbench, sysbench, flamegraphs, JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, Intel (R) VTUNE, ARM SPE, etc.).
  • Solid knowledge of low-level development languages (C, C++, Rust, etc.).
  • Experience with assembly language (any architecture).
  • Experience with performance benchmarks (CoreMark, FPMark, LMBench, Stream, SPEC CPU, SPEC INT, graph500, CORAL, HPGMG, CoMD, Linpack, SuiteSparse Matrix Collection, MLPERF, ResNet, BERT etc.).
  • Solid understanding of operating systems, databases, networking, and cloud technologies.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and identify complex issues.
  • Experience with bare metal (without OS) development for embedded systems and microcontrollers.
  • Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).
  • Experience with machine learning and/or HPC performance optimization.
  • Experience with Fortran.
  • Experience with RISC-V development at the assembly-language level.
  • Experience with statistical analysis.
  • Experience with emulators and simulators (Qemu, Gem5, Spike).
  • Experience in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience with hypervisor technology (KVM, Xen).
  • Experience with open source software development.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools
CC++RustAssembly LanguagePerformance BenchmarkingBare Metal DevelopmentStatistical AnalysisMachine Learning OptimizationRISC-V DevelopmentEmulators and Simulators
Soft Skills
Problem-SolvingCollaborationCommunication