diff --git a/src/bitops.c b/src/bitops.c
index 26a08acfa..8fb201168 100644
--- a/src/bitops.c
+++ b/src/bitops.c
@@ -382,6 +382,53 @@ static inline long long redisPopcountAuto(const unsigned char *p, long count) {
 #endif
 }
 
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * SIMD helpers for redisBitpos() — scan for the first word that does not
+ * match 'skipval' (0 when looking for bit=1, ULONG_MAX for bit=0).
+ * Each function returns the number of bytes scanned that all matched skipval.
+ * The caller advances past that many bytes and falls into the scalar tail.
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+#ifdef HAVE_AVX512
+ATTRIBUTE_TARGET_AVX512
+static unsigned long redisBitposScanAVX512(unsigned char *p,
+                                           unsigned long count, int bit) {
+    unsigned long scanned = 0;
+    __m512i skip = bit ? _mm512_setzero_si512()
+                       : _mm512_set1_epi64(-1LL);
+
+    while (count >= 64) {
+        __m512i data = _mm512_loadu_si512(p);
+        __mmask8 eq = _mm512_cmpeq_epi64_mask(data, skip);
+        if (eq != 0xFF) break;
+        p += 64;
+        count -= 64;
+        scanned += 64;
+    }
+    return scanned;
+}
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_AVX2
+ATTRIBUTE_TARGET_AVX2
+static unsigned long redisBitposScanAVX2(unsigned char *p,
+                                         unsigned long count, int bit) {
+    unsigned long scanned = 0;
+    __m256i skip = bit ? _mm256_setzero_si256()
+                       : _mm256_set1_epi64x(-1LL);
+
+    while (count >= 32) {
+        __m256i data = _mm256_loadu_si256((__m256i *)p);
+        int eq = _mm256_movemask_pd(_mm256_castsi256_pd(
+                     _mm256_cmpeq_epi64(data, skip)));
+        if (eq != 0xF) break;
+        p += 32;
+        count -= 32;
+        scanned += 32;
+    }
+    return scanned;
+}
+#endif
+
 /* Return the position of the first bit set to one (if 'bit' is 1) or
  * zero (if 'bit' is 0) in the bitmap starting at 's' and long 'count' bytes.
  *
@@ -392,7 +439,7 @@ static inline long long redisPopcountAuto(const unsigned char *p, long count) {
 long long redisBitpos(void *s, unsigned long count, int bit) {
     unsigned long *l;
     unsigned char *c;
-    unsigned long skipval, word = 0, one;
+    unsigned long skipval, word = 0;
     long long pos = 0; /* Position of bit, to return to the caller. */
     unsigned long j;
     int found;
@@ -420,16 +467,44 @@ long long redisBitpos(void *s, unsigned long count, int bit) {
         pos += 8;
     }
 
-    /* Skip bits with full word step. */
-    l = (unsigned long*) c;
+    /* Skip bits with full word step. Use SIMD when available for the
+     * bulk of the scan, then fall through to scalar for the tail. */
     if (!found) {
         skipval = bit ? 0 : ULONG_MAX;
+
+#if defined(HAVE_AVX512) || defined(HAVE_AVX2)
+        int useAVX = 0;
+#endif
+
+#if defined(HAVE_AVX512)
+        if (BITOP_USE_AVX512 && count >= 64) {
+            unsigned long advanced = redisBitposScanAVX512(c, count, bit);
+            c += advanced;
+            count -= advanced;
+            pos += advanced * 8;
+            useAVX = 1;
+        }
+#endif
+
+#if defined(HAVE_AVX2)
+        if (!useAVX && BITOP_USE_AVX2 && count >= 32) {
+            unsigned long advanced = redisBitposScanAVX2(c, count, bit);
+            c += advanced;
+            count -= advanced;
+            pos += advanced * 8;
+        }
+#endif
+
+        /* Scalar word-at-a-time scan handles the tail after SIMD and
+         * serves as the sole scan path when SIMD is unavailable. */
+        l = (unsigned long *)c;
         while (count >= sizeof(*l)) {
             if (*l != skipval) break;
             l++;
             count -= sizeof(*l);
             pos += sizeof(*l)*8;
         }
+        c = (unsigned char *)l;
     }
 
     /* Load bytes into "word" considering the first byte as the most significant
@@ -439,7 +514,6 @@ long long redisBitpos(void *s, unsigned long count, int bit) {
      *
      * Note that the loading is designed to work even when the bytes left
      * (count) are less than a full word. We pad it with zero on the right. */
-    c = (unsigned char*)l;
     for (j = 0; j < sizeof(*l); j++) {
         word <<= 8;
         if (count) {
@@ -456,24 +530,19 @@ long long redisBitpos(void *s, unsigned long count, int bit) {
      * that the right of the string is zero padded. */
     if (bit == 1 && word == 0) return -1;
 
-    /* Last word left, scan bit by bit. The first thing we need is to
-     * have a single "1" set in the most significant position in an
-     * unsigned long. We don't know the size of the long so we use a
-     * simple trick. */
-    one = ULONG_MAX; /* All bits set to 1.*/
-    one >>= 1;       /* All bits set to 1 but the MSB. */
-    one = ~one;      /* All bits set to 0 but the MSB. */
-
-    while(one) {
-        if (((one & word) != 0) == bit) return pos;
-        pos++;
-        one >>= 1;
-    }
-
-    /* If we reached this point, there is a bug in the algorithm, since
-     * the case of no match is handled as a special case before. */
-    serverPanic("End of redisBitpos() reached.");
-    return 0; /* Just to avoid warnings. */
+    /* Last word left, find the position of the first matching bit.
+     * __builtin_clzl gives the count of leading zeros in an unsigned long,
+     * which is exactly the bit offset from MSB to the first set bit.
+     * For bit=0 we invert the word first to find the first zero bit.
+     *
+     * Safety: __builtin_clzl is undefined for a zero argument, but that
+     * cannot happen here:
+     *  - bit==1: the 'if (bit == 1 && word == 0) return -1' above guards it.
+     *  - bit==0: the skip-word loop consumes all words equal to ULONG_MAX
+     *    (skipval), so the word loaded here satisfies word != ULONG_MAX,
+     *    meaning ~word != 0. */
+    pos += bit ? __builtin_clzl(word) : __builtin_clzl(~word);
+    return pos;
 }
 
 /* The following set.*Bitfield and get.*Bitfield functions implement setting