XPU Architect
Volantis · Volantis is a semiconductor manufacturing company that designs and manufactures AI chips optimized for high-performance computing needs.
Hybrid Remote/SF Bay Area/Austin/Boston (Remote)1-10 employeesPosted 3 months ago
Undisclosedraised 50 days agoled by Alumni Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, 7percent Ventures
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<p><strong>What We’re Looking For:</strong></p>
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<p>We’re looking for an XPU Architect to own the XPU compute engine architecture of the A-0 and A-1 systems. This will initially involve heavily leveraging existing 3rd party IP, but in a creative way to solve the bandwidth demand challenges and memory system interface challenges. Future generations of the compute XPU will be semi-custom and custom designs. </p>
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<p><strong>Ideal Background:</strong></p>
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<p>An ideal candidate will have:</p>
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<li>Previous experience architecting and owning a high performance, high TDP ASIC (eg AI chips, network switch chips, high performance CPUs or similar) </li>
<li>Knowledge of both computer architecture but also silicon implementation, and understanding of the realistic constraints that silicon implementation places upon architectural options</li>
<li>Deep understanding of AI workloads, especially low latency LLM inference </li>
<li>Understanding of workload and system level bottlenecks, especially around inference, as it pertains to interconnect, memory capacity, bandwidth, latency, etc. </li>
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<p><strong>Strongly Preferred:</strong></p>
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<li>Hands-on experience with AI chip architecture and tapeouts </li>
<li>End to end ownership of at least one AI ASIC project </li>
<li>History of product delivery (regardless of ultimate commercial success of said product) </li>
<li>Experience with HBM-based AI chip architecture </li>
<li>Experience in proposing “weird” chip architectures (in any domain, not just AI!)</li>
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