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Principal AI Accelerator Tools Development Engineer

United States, California, Mountain View💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and develop scalable stress, performance, and validation frameworks for MAIA AI accelerator platforms, building workload generation infrastructure to exercise compute, memory, interconnect, and system-level resources.

Role type

Principal AI Accelerator Tools Development Engineer

Builds

Scalable stress, performance, and validation frameworks; workload generation infrastructure; automated infrastructure for deployment, orchestration, and telemetry; benchmarking methodologies and performance dashboards.

Domain

AI accelerator hardware (MAIA), high-performance computing (HPC), distributed AI systems, compiler technologies.

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

C++, PyTorch, Triton, Python, custom MAIA SDKs, kernel development, performance profiling, bottleneck analysis, distributed AI infrastructure, compiler toolchains (LLVM, MLIR), silicon bring-up, platform qualification, regression testing, thermal/power analysis.

Preferred skills

Experience with AI compiler technologies and kernel generation frameworks, training/optimizing large-scale AI models (LLMs), custom AI accelerator SDKs, collective communication libraries, cloud-scale validation infrastructure.

Technologies

PyTorch, Triton, Python, C++, LLVM, MLIR, MAIA SDKs.

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable stress, performance, and validation frameworks for MAIA AI accelerator platforms; Build workload generation infrastructure capable of exercising compute, memory, interconnect, networking, storage, and system-level resources; Develop and optimize kernels targeting custom AI accelerators; Analyze execution behavior across the hardware-software stack and identify bottlenecks impacting utilization and performance; Collaborate with compiler and runtime teams to improve workload efficiency and hardware utilization; Build automation around model compilation, kernel validation, regression testing, and workload portability.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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