About the role
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for an XPU Architect to own the XPU compute engine architecture of the A-0 and A-1 systems. This will initially involve heavily leveraging existing 3rd party IP, but in a creative way to solve the bandwidth demand challenges and memory system interface challenges. Future generations of the compute XPU will be semi-custom and custom designs.
Ideal Background
An ideal candidate will have:
- Previous experience architecting and owning a high performance, high TDP ASIC (eg AI chips, network switch chips, high performance CPUs or similar)
- Knowledge of both computer architecture but also silicon implementation, and understanding of the realistic constraints that silicon implementation places upon architectural options
- Deep understanding of AI workloads, especially low latency LLM inference
- Understanding of workload and system level bottlenecks, especially around inference, as it pertains to interconnect, memory capacity, bandwidth, latency, etc.
Strongly Preferred
- Hands-on experience with AI chip architecture and tapeouts
- End to end ownership of at least one AI ASIC project
- History of product delivery (regardless of ultimate commercial success of said product)
- Experience with HBM-based AI chip architecture
- Experience in proposing “weird” chip architectures (in any domain, not just AI!)