Hardware Architecture Expert - 3P
Core
Evaluate GPU and accelerator architectures to guide hardware decisions for AI infrastructure, translating vendor specs into real-world workload impact.
Role type
Senior IC hardware architecture expert (GPU/accelerators)
Builds
Next-generation AI systems at scale
Domain
AI infrastructure / Semiconductor hardware
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
GPU and accelerator architecture expertise, performance and power tradeoff analysis, silicon vendor engagement, benchmarking and profiling, memory system understanding (HBM, cache hierarchies), data type and precision tradeoffs, interconnect and scaling behavior analysis, early silicon bring-up and evaluation
Preferred skills
Experience at silicon providers (NVIDIA, AMD), familiarity with AI accelerator stacks (GPUs, custom ASICs), hardware validation workflows, performance tooling and microbenchmarking
Technologies
NVIDIA GPUs, AMD accelerators, HBM, DDR, FP16, BF16, FP8
Responsibilities
Engage with silicon vendors on architectural tradeoffs, analyze performance/power/efficiency characteristics, translate vendor specs to workload performance, evaluate compute/memory/interconnect aspects, run benchmarks to validate hardware, lead early bring-up of engineering samples, partner with modeling teams, provide feedback to influence silicon roadmap
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
