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Senior Performance Architect - Heterogeneous Workload Optimization

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k2026-09-06 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Architecting and maintaining custom profiling frameworks to measure, analyze, and optimize the interaction between design graphs in system memory and high-throughput kernels on GPUs for EDA workloads.

Role type

Senior Systems Performance Engineer (Heterogeneous Workload Optimization)

Builds

Next-generation profiling infrastructure for EDA applications

Domain

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) / High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

CUDA programming model, GPU profiling (Nsight Systems/Compute), system profiling (perf, eBPF, VTune, Valgrind), distributed compute (Slurm, LSF, Kubernetes), memory analysis, predictive modeling for hardware procurement

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

CUDA, Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, perf, eBPF, VTune, Valgrind, Slurm, LSF, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Architecting custom profiling frameworks for CPU and GPU environments; Conducting deep-dive benchmarking of EDA applications; Using GPU profilers to detect inefficiencies; Developing tools to monitor and attribute high-watermark memory usage; Developing predictive models for hardware procurement and cloud instance selection

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC