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Performance Modeling Lead

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-20 → 2026-08-01

Core

Build performance modeling frameworks to evaluate system-level tradeoffs and guide architectural decisions for AI infrastructure.

Role type

Lead, quantitative system modeling for AI hardware

Builds

Performance modeling toolchains and quantitative analysis for AI system architecture

Domain

AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

performance modeling frameworks, AI/ML workload analysis, system architecture tradeoffs, analytical/simulation modeling, technical leadership

Preferred skills

hardware vendor engagement, data center infrastructure, accelerators/interconnects knowledge, roadmap influence, engineering mentorship

Technologies

NVLink, InfiniBand, Ethernet, GPUs, ASICs

Responsibilities

Build performance modeling framework/toolchain, analyze compute/memory/networking tradeoffs, guide scale-up/scale-out decisions, translate modeling outputs to recommendations, influence reference designs, partner with ML/systems teams, lead small engineering team, validate models against real system behavior

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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