CareerPlan

Systems Performance Modeling Engineer

SunnyvaleRemoteFull-time2026-09-23 → 2026-10-21
Hybrid

Core

Build simulation-based performance models and tools to predict how generative AI inference workloads perform on Tensordyne systems from single accelerators up to cluster scale.

Role type

Senior IC systems performance modeling engineer

Builds

Simulation models, trace-capture/replay tooling, and performance projections for multimodal generative AI inference systems

Domain

AI inference systems, custom silicon, hardware, networking, and distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, Python, distributed ML execution, collective communication, system architecture, performance modeling, simulation, experimental design, debugging

Preferred skills

LLM inference serving, collective communication libraries, data center/HPC networking, ML workload profiling, hardware/software co-design

Technologies

C++, Python, NCCL, RDMA, RoCE, GPUs, TPUs, ASICs

Responsibilities

Implement and extend simulation-based performance models for multimodal generative AI inference; Model serving strategies and their interaction with silicon and fabric topology; Build trace-capture and replay tooling; Model collective communication on multi-hop scale-out fabrics; Run calibration experiments and fix model errors; Run design-space sweeps and write analyses; Produce performance projections for product and customer discussions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC