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As a Principal Silicon Performance Architect, you will join an agile engineering team focused on artificial intelligence performance from micro-architecture exploration through end-to-end workload validation. You will own performance modeling and analysis for current and future AI workloads, translating hardware and software architectural ideas into simulator implementations while running rigorous experiments across design variants. Your daily work involves extending simulation infrastructure to model new innovations for AI inference, performing design-space exploration using automated workflows, and providing data-driven recommendations to influence architecture decisions. You will collaborate with chip, system, and software architects to evaluate trade-offs in throughput, latency, and efficiency. The role requires proficiency in C, C++, and Python to modify architectural simulators and performance modeling codebases while addressing technical challenges within the AI inference software stack, including compilers, runtimes, and model serving systems.
SoC
System Architecture
Silicon Roadmap
AI
CPU
GPU
NPU
Memory
Power Management
Performance Analysis
System Modeling
Firmware
Heterogeneous Compute
Security
Remote (Santa Clara, CA)+343 days ago
$198,600–$297,800
SoC Architecture
CPU Microarchitecture
Performance Modeling
Linux
Firmware
Memory Management
PMU
Data Analysis
Scripting
System Configuration
I/O Subsystems