Datacenter Performance Analysis Engineer – Agentic AI Workload

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Shape the performance of cutting-edge RISC-V CPUs for contemporary datacenter and intelligent AI workloads.

• Implement real-world applications on RISC-V platforms and analyze their behavior.

• Utilize workload analysis to pinpoint opportunities for enhanced CPU performance, efficiency, and scalability.

• Collaborate with CPU architects, RTL designers, software engineers, and compiler teams to grasp workload execution.

• Convert workload insights into architectural enhancements.

• Simplify large production workloads into representative workloads and traces for performance modeling.

• Align simulation outcomes with hardware behavior.

• Impact CPU architecture and performance across cloud, enterprise, and emerging AI workloads.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid foundation in CPU performance analysis, workload characterization, or computer architecture, with experience linking software behavior to hardware performance.

• Knowledge of modern CPU microarchitecture, covering superscalar pipelines, speculative execution, memory hierarchies, and vector/SIMD architectures.

• Proficient in using profiling and simulation data to uncover bottlenecks and formulate actionable recommendations.

• Comfortable navigating CPU microarchitecture, RTL, operating systems, compilers, runtimes, and applications.

• Excellent technical communication and teamwork abilities.

• PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with substantial research or industry experience in workload characterization, benchmark development, performance analysis, or simulation.

• Profound comprehension of CPU architecture and RISC-V, including pipelines, speculative execution, vector/SIMD extensions, memory hierarchies, and performance trade-offs.

• Practical experience with Linux perf, strace, QEMU, or CPU microarchitecture simulators.

• Strong programming capabilities in C/C++, Python, Bash/Shell, and assembly or intrinsic programming.

• Comprehensive understanding of systems software, incorporating operating systems, virtualization, compilers, runtimes, and GNU/RISC-V software ecosystems.

• Eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology, including adherence to applicable U.S. export regulations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package and benefits.

• Variable compensation targets included in the overall compensation range.