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Performance Tools Intern
San Jose · Intern · Internship
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About the role
- This is a unique opportunity to shape performance analysis for novel hardware from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Build components of our performance analysis and profiling infrastructure.
- Develop tooling to trace host-side runtime activity, system behavior, and accelerator execution.
- Develop a user-space service for low-overhead tracing of accelerator activity.
- Design and build a correlated timeline view visualizing CPU API calls, driver submissions, PCIe transfers, and accelerator execution units.
Requirements
- You may be a good fit if you have
- Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)
- Experience with ML accelerator architectures (GPUs, TPUs, etc.).
- Experience with kernel-mode driver development (Linux or Windows).
Nice to have
- Collect and analyze performance data from our custom ML accelerators, including hardware counters, execution traces, and memory behavior.
- Help correlate performance events across CPUs, accelerators, storage, networking, and distributed workloads.
- Strong programming skills in C++ or Rust.
- Experience with Python is a plus.
- Solid understanding of computer architecture, including CPUs, GPUs or AI accelerators, memory hierarchies, and parallel programming.
- Experience or strong interest in low-level performance analysis, profiling, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with performance analysis tools such as Nsight, VTune, Xprof, Perfetto, or similar tools is a plus.
Skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and curiosity to learn quickly in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Direct experience developing performance analysis or debugging tools.
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills.
- We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and develop a sophisticated performance analysis tool, tailored specifically for our hardware.
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