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Senior Researcher - AI Computer Architecture

United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-23 → 2026-09-27

Core

Define research roadmap and advance long-term agenda for AI system architectures built on novel optical interconnects, new memory technologies, and recent hardware trends.

Role type

Senior Researcher - AI Computer Architecture

Builds

System models, simulations, and software prototypes to explore architectural trade-offs in scale-up networking, memory offloading, and memory disaggregation.

Domain

AI systems design, computer architecture, optical interconnects, memory systems

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

Architectural impact in computer system organisation, multi-disciplinary research leadership, system modelling and simulation, experiment planning and execution, technical presentation and dissemination, team mentoring

Preferred skills

Experience with SGLang or vLLM for high-performance LLM inference, scale-up networking in AI GPU/xPU systems, memory systems for AI inference/training infrastructure

Technologies

SGLang, vLLM

Responsibilities

Design, model, and prototype future AI systems through an integrated co-design approach; plan and execute experiments to validate or disprove hypotheses; collaborate with external industry partners to drive hardware proof-of-concept development; mentor and grow team capabilities within a multidisciplinary team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic research leadership

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