
Senior Staff Software Engineer – Kernels
d-Matrix
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Clara • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- The role requires you to be part of the team that helps productize the SW stack for our AI compute engine.
- As part of the software team, you will be responsible for the development, enhancement, and maintenance of software kernels for next-generation AI hardware.
- You possess experience building software kernels for HW architectures.
- You possess a very strong understanding of various hardware architectures and how to map algorithms to the architecture.
- You understand how to map computational graphs generated by AI frameworks to the underlying architecture.
- You have had past experience working across all aspects of the full-stack toolchain and understand the nuances of what it takes to optimize and trade off various aspects of hardware-software co-design.
- You can build and scale software deliverables in a tight development window.
- You will work with a team of compiler experts to build out the compiler infrastructure, working closely with other software (ML, systems) and hardware (mixed signal, DSP, CPU) experts in the company.
Requirements
- MS in computer engineering, math, physics, or a related degree with 10+ years of industry experience or PhD in computer engineering, math, physics, or a related degree with 1+ years of industry experience.
- Strong grasp of computer architecture, data structures, system software, and machine learning fundamentals.
- Proficient in C/C++ and Python development in Linux environments and using standard development tools.
- Experience implementing algorithms in high-level languages such as C/C++ and Python.
- Experience implementing algorithms for specialized hardware such as FPGAs, DSPs, GPUs, and AI accelerators using libraries such as CUDA, etc.
- Experience in implementing operators commonly used in ML workloads—GEMMs, Convolutions, BLAS, SIMD operators for operations like softmax, layer normalization, pooling, etc.
- Experience with development for embedded SIMD vector processors such as Tensilica.
- Self-motivated team player with a strong sense of ownership and leadership.
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
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Hard skills
CC++PythonLinuxCUDAFPGAsDSPsGPUsmachine learningcomputer architecture
Soft skills
self-motivatedteam playerownershipleadership
Certifications
MS in computer engineeringPhD in computer engineering