Senior Staff Engineer, SoC NPU Architect

Mountain View, CAfull time

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$204k–$306k

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Samsungresearchamerica The Senior Staff Engineer, SoC NPU Architect at Samsung leads architecture and performance modeling for next-generation NPU subsystems in SoCs. The role involves innovative design, performance simulation, and hardware-software co-optimization for AI workloads.

Responsibilities

Propose innovative NPU architectural and micro-architectural features
Perform high-level performance modeling, simulation, and analysis
Develop cycle accurate and analytical NPU performance models
Deliver architecture and microarchitecture proposals and specifications
Analyze benchmarks, application workloads, and simulation results
Map AI use cases to NPU
Optimize and co-design software and hardware for low power and high performance
Collaborate across teams to implement architecture proposals

Qualification

Bachelor’sProficient programming skills in PythonExperience in ML frameworks (TensorFlowExperience in micro architecture of SoCSpecial Attributes

Required

Bachelor’s, Masters or PhD degree in Electrical, Computer Science, related Science or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
14+ years of experience in NPU architecture & development
Hands on experience in developing cycle accurate performance and functional models
Good knowledge and hands on experience in in CNN and LLM models
Proficient programming skills in Python, System C and/or C++
Experience in ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX)
Experience in micro architecture of SoC, interface subsystems, logic modules
Self-motivated problem-solver with an ability to work well in a team
Special Attributes:
Experience in performance/power modeling using Platform Architect
Experience in mapping AI use cases to IPs
Experience with hardware memory managements units, prefetching or memory subsystems