Tensordyne
Principal ASIC Architect
Sunnyvale, CA · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
PythonC++AlgorithmsNLPLLMsVerilogElectrical EngineeringResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Expert-level skills in C/C++, and scripting languages like Python or Perl for automation and modeling.
- An MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related engineering discipline.
- Tensordyne's culture was built on the following values:
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural planning and definition of new Tensordyne AI processors, that consist of highly specialized floating point AI compute cores, embedded memory, embedded RISC-V CPU cores, and high speed serial communications with chip-to-chip networking fabric, HBM, and PCIe connectivity.
- Work closely with external engineering partners, ASIC design engineers, ASIC design verification teams, SOC physical design teams, interdisciplinary software teams, product management and executives, providing technical guidance, overseeing design reviews and mentoring where applicable.
- Lead the evaluation of new silicon IP technologies, EDA tools and methodologies to enhance the product and improve the efficiency of our chip design process.
- Tensordyne builds high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems.
- We're leveraging novel techniques from the latest AI research to build custom silicon, hardware, and software to accelerate multimodal generative AI at scale-delivering safe, sustainable, cutting-edge solutions for hyperscaler and neocloud data centers.
- Analyze technical needs, propose chip design solutions, create detailed design specifications, lead architectural modeling and establish ASIC development milestones to ensure that the final product meets requirements related to functionality, inference performance, inference accuracy, power efficiency, programmability, debuggability and manufacturability.
- In this role, you will lead all phases of ASIC architecture definition and design of Tensordyne's next-generation family of processors for generative AI inference acceleration.
- Own it and get it done. Results matter!
Requirements
- Strong understanding of generative AI algorithms, attention mechanisms, foundation transformer models, and mapping these functions to hardware.
- Strong Verilog programming skills, and experience with RTL verification, and performance modeling.
- Experience with performance analysis, debugging, and optimization is also required.
Benefits
- AI is reshaping our world, performing cognitive tasks once unique to humans-perceiving across modalities, learning quickly, and solving complex problems.
- We support our people with competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, flexibility, and recognition programs-because breakthrough technology starts with a healthy, empowered team.
Company info
- Put people first. We only succeed when our people succeed.
- Ethics and integrity always; Being open, honest, and respectful of everyone.
- Think Big. Be ambitious and have audacious goals.
- Aim for excellence. Quality and excellence count in everything we do.
- Make each person better together, than they would be as an individual.
- Embrace each others' differences, and embrace that there will be differences.
- Please don't reach out to Tensordyne employees or leaders about our roles -- we've got it covered.
- We don't accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
- Thank you for your understanding.
Equal opportunity
- Tensordyne is an equal opportunity employer.
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