Hark
Product Performance Engineer
San Jose · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$300kDetected 73 days ago
PythonRustC++Agentic AIElectrical EngineeringLeadership
About the role
- Model performance at every level - silicon, system, service, and end-to-end user experience - and connect insights across layers
- Translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for architects, engineers, and leadership
Responsibilities
- Build deep understanding of target workloads and characterize their compute, memory, bandwidth, and latency demands on a variety of target hardware platforms
- Develop and maintain analytical and simulation-based models that project system performance across design and assumption variants
- Collaborate with silicon, software, hardware, model, and service teams to align assumptions and deliver insights
- Proactively identify performance risks and design opportunities ahead of architectural commit points
- Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence.
- We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines.
Requirements
- 5+ years analyzing workload behavior and modeling system performance for consumer or data center products
- Hands-on experience with profiling, benchmarking, and tracing tools across the stack
- Demonstrated ability to translate quantitative analysis into architectural recommendations
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in a relevant technical discipline
- Experience with hardware/software co-design and architectural exploration tooling
- Familiarity with accelerator, SoC, or memory subsystem architecture
- Comfort moving fluidly between rigorous quantitative work and cross-functional influence
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $120,000 - $300,000 annually.
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Benefits
- One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
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