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# Lead Hardware Engineer - Offload

- **Company:** Tech Tammina LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Network Functions Virtualization, PCI Express, Performance Tuning, System Programming, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/6c9938dc-1829-4cd0-b939-cedb652229c2

## About the Role

Heavy experience in hardware offloading and systems performance tuning.
Offload Technologies: Deep background in SR-IOV, NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), and PCIe device pass-through.
System Programming: Mastery of C and C++ for bare-metal performance engineering.
High-Speed Interconnects: Experience investigating or implementing hardware interconnect acceleration (such as NVLink CPU-to-CPU performance optimizations).
Kernel Bypass: Knowledge of DPDK, eBPF, or direct memory access (DMA) drivers., Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

## Description

Implement and optimize hardware-based network offloading (SR-IOV, NFV) for ARM bare-metal compute hosts.
Investigate, integrate, and benchmark NVLink support for CPU-to-CPU interconnect performance improvements.
Profile hardware bus bottlenecks, PCIe throughput, and latency characteristics on ARM superchip platforms.
Deliver technical recommendations and kernel/user-space code enhancements to maximize platform throughput.