Senior Staff Engineer, SoC NPU Architect

The role

This person will lead NPU sub-system architecture, interface, performance and power tradeoffs. They will perform architectural exploration, research machine learning, and conduct hardware-software co-optimization for next generation SOCs.

What you will do

• Propose innovative NPU Architectural and micro-architectural features to boost PPA
• Perform high-level performance modeling/simulation and analysis of NPU features, applications, benchmarks, and complex use case
• Develop cycle accurate and analytical NPU performance model and correlate with Silicon
• Deliver architecture/microarchitecture proposals and specifications to the design team
• Analyze benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results for architecture and microarchitecture optimizations
• Map AI use cases to NPU
• Optimize and co-design of SW and HW to develop new architectures for low power and high performance
• Collaborate across teams to bring architecture proposals to fruition

Required qualifications

• 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

Nice to have

• 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
• Experience with multi-core systems and memory coherency
• Experience in ML model optimization on GPU Architecture
• Highly motivated with good verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• annual bonus eligibility
• generous benefits

Before you apply

• You must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer

About the company

The Samsung SoC Architecture Lab explores innovative SoC architecture for future Samsung Galaxy products. The lab collaborates with Samsung MX headquarter team, key R&D teams around the globe and Samsung's strategic SoC partners.