ASIC架构师（AI推理）
ASIC Architect (AI Inference)
### **关于 Positron AI**
Positron AI 正在开发下一代 AI 推理加速器，从零开始设计，专为低延迟、高吞吐量的大语言模型推理而打造。我们的第一代 ASIC 芯片 Asimov 是一款面向前沿 AI 工作负载的尖端加速器，后续版本已开始研发。
### **职位概述**
我们正在寻找一位卓越的首席 ASIC 架构师，帮助定义 AI 推理硬件的未来。您将与架构、软件、机器学习、系统和硅芯片实现团队协作，设计能够服务快速演进的前沿模型的下一代 AI 加速器。该职位需要卓越的技术广度，平衡数学理解、ML 趋势、系统架构和实际硅芯片实现。这可能是继首席架构师之后最重要的技术招聘。
### **主要职责**
**架构探索**
- 主导在不断发展的 Transformer 模型、MoE、稀疏模型和长上下文推理领域的架构探索。
- 评估新兴技术，包括推测解码、连续批处理、KV 缓存演化、次二次和线性注意力、状态空间模型等。
- 评估下一代加速器的内存架构、通信架构和互连结构。
**性能建模**
- 开发分析模型并构建仿真框架，以评估架构权衡。
- 估算延迟、吞吐量、带宽、内存和计算利用率、扩展效率、功耗、面积和成本。
**软硬件协同设计**
- 与编译器、运行时、系统软件、固件、ASIC 工程和 ML 研究团队紧密合作，确保硬件方向符合实际工作负载需求。
**ASIC 规范与路线图**
- 编写架构文档并定义子系统接口。
- 评估不同架构方向之间的权衡，并指导未来产品路线图。
**行业洞察**
- 跟踪新的 LLM、推理模型、研究论文、硬件竞争对手、学术研究和新兴算法，确保 Positron 的架构领先于领域发展。
**AI 驱动的工程**
- 使用 AI 加速研究、性能分析、架构探索、仿真生成和文档编写。
### **所需资格**
- 15 年以上 ASIC 架构经验。
- 在 AI 加速器设计和高性能计算方面有深入的专业知识。
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### **About Positron AI**
Positron AI is building next-generation AI inference accelerators designed from the ground up for low-latency, high-throughput large language model inference. Our first-generation ASIC, Asimov, is a cutting-edge accelerator targeting frontier AI workloads, with additional generations already underway.
### **Role Overview**
We're looking for an exceptional Principal ASIC Architect to help define the future of AI inference hardware. You will collaborate across architecture, software, machine learning, systems, and silicon implementation to design next-generation AI accelerators capable of serving rapidly evolving frontier models. This role requires exceptional technical breadth, balancing mathematical understanding, ML trends, systems architecture, and practical silicon implementation. This may be the single most important technical hire after the Chief Architect.
### **Key Responsibilities**
**Architectural Exploration**
- Own architectural exploration across the evolving landscape of transformer models, MoE, sparse models, and long-context inference.
- Evaluate emerging techniques including speculative decoding, continuous batching, KV-cache evolution, sub-quadratic and linear attention, and state-space models.
- Assess memory architectures, communication architectures, and interconnects for next-generation accelerators.
**Performance Modeling**
- Develop analytical models and build simulation frameworks to evaluate architectural tradeoffs.
- Estimate latency, throughput, bandwidth, memory and compute utilization, scaling efficiency, power, area, and cost.
**Hardware/Software Co-Design**
- Partner closely with compiler, runtime, system software, firmware, ASIC engineering, and ML research teams to align hardware direction with real workload needs.
**ASIC Specification & Roadmap**
- Develop architecture documents and define subsystem interfaces.
- Evaluate tradeoffs across competing architectural directions and guide the future product roadmap.
**Industry Awareness**
- Track new LLMs, reasoning models, research papers, hardware competitors, academic research, and emerging algorithms to keep Positron's architecture ahead of the field.
**AI-Enabled Engineering**
- Use AI to accelerate research, performance analysis, architecture exploration, simulation generation, and documentation.
### **Required Qualifications**
- 15+ years of experience in ASIC architecture.
- Deep expertise in AI accelerator design and high-performance SoCs.
- Hands-on experience building performance models for memory systems and interconnects.
- Strong hardware/software co-design ability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
### **Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with GPU architecture.
- A solid grasp of ML systems, distributed inference, and large-scale serving.
- Deep knowledge of transformer internals.
- Compiler experience.
- A track record of research publications.
#### **Leveling & Scope**
While this role is currently posted at a specific level, we are a growth-oriented organization and are open to hiring at a more senior level for the right candidate. Please note that this job description serves as a focused but generalized overview of the role; specific responsibilities and impact expectations will be tailored to the experience and seniority of the final hire.
### **What Success Looks Like**
Success in this role looks like helping define future Positron architectures and creating a scalable architectural direction that bridges software and hardware, influencing products that remain competitive for years despite rapidly evolving AI models.
### **Why Join Us?**
- Shape the core architecture of Positron's AI inference accelerators at a foundational level, with outsized influence over the company's technical direction for years to come.
- Work at the intersection of frontier AI research and silicon implementation, tackling problems few architects in the industry get to own end to end.
### **Compensation & Benefits**
The base salary range for this role is $200,000 – $300,000.
Please note that the figures provided represent the base salary range only and do not include other elements of our total compensation package, equity, or comprehensive benefits.
At Positron AI, we value the unique expertise each candidate brings. While the range above reflects our typical expectation for the position, we reserve the flexibility to exceed this range for candidates whose specialized skills, significant experience, or unique qualifications fall outside the standard scope of the role. Final offers are determined based on a variety of factors, including internal equity, and individual impact.
### **Benefits & Perks**
We want you to do your best work and feel confident that you and your family are taken care of. That means comprehensive coverage, real time to rest, and support for your future.
**Health and wellness**
- Fully company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Company-paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options to add more
- Supplemental hospital, critical illness, and accident coverage available
**Time off and flexibility**
- Unlimited paid time off, so you can truly unplug and recharge
- 13 paid company holidays
- Remote-first culture with a company-provided computer and home office setup
**Compensation and future**
- Competitive salary and equity
- 401(k) with company matching, eligible from day one
### **Visa Support**
This position is open to candidates currently authorized to work in the U.S. We cannot provide new visa sponsorship for this role but are open to facilitating H-1B visa transfers for eligible candidates.
**Equal Opportunity Employer.** If you're excited about the role but don't meet every bullet, we'd still love to hear from you.