2 days ago
Base Salary
$228k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the ONTAP performance team and establish performance direction across hardware and software projects.
- Evaluate architecture options, design alternatives, competitiveness, and performance differentiation.
- Optimize ONTAP for generative and agentic AI workloads spanning data ingest, preparation, training, checkpointing, inference, KV-cache, and RAG/vector search.
- Own AI benchmark planning, execution, analysis, automation, and industry submissions including MLPerf Storage and SPECstorage AI_IMAGE.
- Define repeatable AI workload models and benchmark methods based on customer pipelines.
- Collaborate with GPU and AI ecosystem partners on reference architectures, certifications, and high-performance data paths.
- Design, implement, execute, interpret, and socialize storage-oriented performance measurements.
- Translate benchmark results into technical reports, competitive briefs, conference talks, and materials for product marketing and field teams.
Requirements
- Typically 12–15 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- In-depth knowledge of technology trends, architecture differentiation, competitive positioning, and workload optimization.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML benchmarks and frameworks and understanding of how AI training and inference stress storage.
- Familiarity with GPU server architectures and high-performance data paths including RDMA, NVMe-oF, GPUDirect Storage, and parallel file access.
- Extensive knowledge of operating systems, computer architecture and design, data structures, software design, programming practices, and systems programming in C and/or C++.
- Strong scripting skills in Perl, Python, and Shell, primarily within JupyterHub.
- Knowledge of storage systems and file systems is highly desirable.
- Experience publishing benchmark results or participating in industry groups such as MLCommons or SPEC is a plus.
- Exceptional presentation and influencing skills, accurate work-estimation ability, predictable planning skills, and willingness to take on additional responsibilities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stock units, subject to regional variations and local policies.
About NetApp
NetApp builds data storage and data management software and hardware for enterprises, including ONTAP-powered all-flash arrays and hybrid cloud services that integrate with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It sells systems and subscriptions that support backup, disaster recovery, databases, and container/Kubernetes workloads. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NetApp is a public company listed on NASDAQ.