Advanced Chip Research Engineer - Vice President
On-site · New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Advanced chip research engineer role focused on evaluating accelerator architectures (ASICs, wafer-scale, dataflow) for AI and emerging workloads; lead benchmarking, performance analysis, and collaboration with external semiconductor partners to map hardware capabilities to application-specific requirements; seeks strong background in computer architecture, accelerator systems, and hands-on experience with AI workloads; senior leadership element indicated by VP title and expectation to advise leadership on opportunities to accelerate outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree with 3+ years of industry experience or Ph.D. with 1+ years of industry experience in computer science, physics, math, engineering or related fields.
- Strong background in computer architecture, accelerator systems (e.g., ASICs, wafer-scale engines, dataflow architectures, systolic arrays), or advanced compute platforms.
- Demonstrated understanding of modern accelerator chips and heterogeneous processing units, including experience with memory hierarchies, interconnects, and parallel processing.
- Ability to analyze and reason about performance, scalability, and feasibility of hardware solutions for AI and other data and compute intensive workloads.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with AI or other data- and compute-intensive workloads on alternative chip architectures, with a strong emphasis on workload characterization and benchmarking.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience spanning multiple accelerator architectures including custom ASICs, wafer-scale and dataflow systems.
- Experience working/collaborating with top AI hardware labs or accelerator platform teams.
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