Senior Performance Engineer

Position Summary:
The SW Performance Engineer is responsible for debugging and pre-analyzing performance defects occurring in the system during the development lifecycle and suggesting corrective actions. In addition, he is in charge of analysis, implementation & verification of resource management SW configuration based on the design from SW Architecture. He is doing KPI pass / fail criteria analysis in cooperation with SW domains and KPI TraceMarker verification.

Job Responsibilities:

• Carries out trace and error analysis according to the performance backlog
• Performes root cause analysis of performance issues and provides solution proposals to SW domains, actively steering the improvement by technical coordination of all involved parties
• Review of SW code and design concepts
• Implements resource management specific configuration according to the design made by SW & System Architecture teams
• Validates the performance specific architecture & traces
• Oversees the system performance lifecycle and identifies key metrics for performance improvements.
• Carries out KPI pass / fail criteria analysis
• Cooperates with SW domains and System Test team in order to ensure reliable KPI measurements
• Generates related statistics
• Apply state-of-the-art methods to ensure and optimize SW quality
• Report to project management and customer

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or other relevant (IT connected) specializations
• 5 years of professional experience in software development / software testing with focus on embedded Linux systems
• Experience in system introspection, especially system monitoring
• Sound knowledge of trace & debugging tools & architecture
• Profound knowledge of Linux kernel & user space SW performance debugging & Problem solving
• Practical experience in coordinating engineering teams
• Good communication and technical presentation skills
• Fluent English communication skills both written and verbal

• Skills in C/C++ and shell programming, Python is beneficial
• Automotive experience
• Experience with infotainment / entertainment systems.

• Willingness to travel (0-10% of time) depending on the project necessities