Samsung Semiconductor

Semiconductor

SeniorStaffEngineer

$250–400k ~AI est. San Jose, California, United States
The Brief

“Senior Staff Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor. Skills: AI Software, Hardware Co-design, LLM Optimization. Lead co-design of software/hardware solutions. Optimize AI model inference performance”

What You'll Achieve.

Minimize energy consumption; Maximize performance; Provide better balance; Equip platforms for future workloads; Revolutionize AI/ML deployment; Advance AGI affordably; Advance AGI sustainably

Industry & Context.

Semiconductor
Problems you'll solve

Solving complex system-level challenges

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's with 15+ years industry experience, Master's with 13+ years industry experience, PhD's with 10+ years industry experience, High-performance AI framework software development experience, End-to-end understanding of AI infrastructure, Solid understanding of LLM model architectures, Solid understanding of agentic AI architecture, Hands-on expertise with PyTorch framework, Practical experience with vLLM, Solid understanding of memory wall problem, Proficiency working in Linux environment, Solid command of development tooling

Nice to Have

Experience writing high-performance AI framework software development for GPUs or other accelerators

What You'll Do.

Lead co-design of software/hardware solutions

Optimize AI model inference performance

Overcome memory bottlenecks

Analyze LLM workloads

Analyze agentic AI workloads

Optimize AI workloads

Identify hardware-aware acceleration opportunities

Profile model execution

Characterize model execution

Expose memory wall limitations

Guide architectural decisions

Influence memory architecture

Influence acceleration strategies

Influence compute placement

Develop inference solutions

Develop serving solutions

Benchmark inference solutions

Benchmark serving solutions

Define best practices

Provide technical mentorship

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Hardware teams; Software engineers

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