Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Researcher
Core
Inventing novel hardware systems using silicon photonics and modeling performance of Lightmatter-enabled systems for AI training and inference workloads.
Role type
Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Researcher (Team Lead)
Builds
High-performance rack-scale designs and reference platforms powered by Lightmatter technology.
Domain
AI data center infrastructure / Silicon Photonics / HPC
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | research
Required skills
Machine Learning systems research, performance evaluation and modeling, Large Language Model training and inference frameworks, AI systems knowledge (compute and networking topologies), team leadership
Preferred skills
First-principles thinking, communicating complex research outcomes, cross-functional collaboration, project management
Technologies
Passage™, GPUs, TPUs, Ethernet, Infiniband, NVLink
Responsibilities
Build tools to model performance of Passage-enabled systems for training and inference workloads, collaborate with product and architecture teams to design reference platforms, publish academic papers and marketing collateral, lead a small team of Machine Learning engineers
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with team leadership