System Performance Test Engineer (AI, Automation)

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This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. **Who We Are** Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. **Job Description** **High Performance Computing, AI and Labs** is a critical element of **HPE** . We are focused on delivering innovative solutions that accelerate our customers' digital transformation, enabling them to tackle their complex, data-intensive workloads. Combining deep expertise with the development of the world's most cutting-edge high-performance supercomputers is defining the next era of computing and delivering valuable insights and innovation. **Join us and redefine what's next for you.** **About The Role** **HPE NonStop** is seeking a hands-on **System Performance Test Engineer** to drive **AI-powered** innovation and automation across our existing **NonStop** System Performance test suite. Many of the test beds in our catalog have some degree of automation already built within them; however, we are looking to identify and execute potential **AI** innovations and automation opportunities. We're looking for someone who will bring new ideas to the organization and drive them through implementation. In addition to **AI productivity** experience, we are seeking an engineer who also has previous experience with system performance testing. As a member of the **NonStop** Performance Team, you will also participate in **NonStop** System Performance testing. Our **NonStop** Performance Team provides end-to-end performance evaluation of the **NonStop** Compute and Software solution, including x86 processors, memory, networking, and storage subsystem components. You will work as a member of the **Performance Team** , which owns benchmarking strategy, deep-dive profiling, performance tuning, and capacity characterization on Intel x86 platforms, high-speed interconnects (e.g., InfiniBand/RDMA), and our proprietary operating system and network stack (SSH, NFS, SMB/Samba, DNS, FTP/SFTP, NTP, and IPsec). This team's role is pivotal for customers in payment gateways, banking, stock exchanges, and telecom switching—domains that demand low latency, high throughput, and high availability. **What You'll Do** **As a member of the NonStop Performance Team:** - Become a participating member of the NonStop Performance Team to understand day-to-day performance testing workflows and identify AI innovation and automation opportunities. - Collaborate with the NonStop Performance Team Engineering Lead to identify and execute prioritized AI productivity innovations and automation. - As a member of the Performance Team, you may be tasked to: - Execute, define, and drive performance activities, including metrics, KPIs, SLOs, benchmarks, acceptance criteria, and regression gates for releases. - Translate product performance and workload requirements into repeatable performance test plans. - Use tools such as Measure, ProcessH, XProfile, Wireshark (runtime performance data collection), and LoadRunner analysis tools to perform full-stack profiling (CPU, memory, cache, NUMA locality, I/O paths, interrupts, network stack, and kernel scheduling). - Analyze contention (locks, queues), interrupt distribution, socket backlogs, TCP/IP and RDMA tuning, storage queues, and filesystem behavior to produce clear root-cause analyses with system software development teams. - Partner with hardware, firmware, OS, storage, and networking teams to co-own performance outcomes, participate in design and code reviews, and advocate for performance-centric architecture and testability. **In Support Of AI Innovation Initiatives** You may be tasked to: - Create and maintain team-level AI artifacts, including: - AGENTS.md - .github/copilot-instructions.md - Reusable prompts - Workflow playbooks - Build and refine AI personas for specific use cases. - Implement AI-assisted test suite workflow automations (GitHub, CI/CD, scripts, and internal tooling). - Prototype and deliver tools in Python (or similar languages), with clear documentation and adoption guidance. - Track and report impact metrics for implemented changes, including: - Adoption - Cycle time - Review quality - Defect trends - Provide enablement support through demos, office hours, and team training sessions. **What You Need To Bring** Education & Experience - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, IT Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). - 5+ years of experience in system performance engineering with strong coding skills. - Proficiency in Python programming for test automation, tooling development, AI-assisted workflow automation, data analysis, and integration of AI-powered solutions into engineering processes. - Practical experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) in software development workflows. - Experience delivering automation or developer tooling used by multiple engineers. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical trade-offs. - Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments while maintaining execution focus. - Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD systems. - Growth mindset, curiosity, and willingness to