Cerebras Systems

Technology

ASICArchitect

$450–750k ~AI est. Sunnyvale, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“ASIC Architect at Cerebras Systems. Skills: ASIC Architecture, Performance Modeling, Computer Architecture. Translate architecture spec to requirements. Bring up new features”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Masters/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, 10+ years of experience, background in computer architecture, standing up new performance models from scratch, micro-code performance bottlenecks, optimization techniques

Nice to Have

Understanding of basic ML workload profiling techniques, model network architecture is preferred

What You'll Do.

Translate architecture spec to requirements

Bring up new features

Perform PPA trade-offs

Extract insights for features

Project competition performance

Identify kernel level opportunities

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

SW teams

Full Job Description

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs. Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference. Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation. Responsibilities Translate high level architecture spec to micro-architecture feature requirements Bring up new features in the performance/power model Perform comprehensive PPA trade-offs for new architectural features Extract insights for new features and micro-architecture power efficiency Profile workloads, identify bottlenecks and project competition performance for benchmarking Engage with SW teams for end-end application level modeling at cluster level Identify kernel level HW acceleration level opportunities Qualifications Masters/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering 10+ years of experience across performance analysis and modeling across GPUs, CPUs or accelerator products Strong background in computer architecture and key high level architectural trade-offs Comfortable standing up new performance models from scratch in Python or similar anal

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