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# ASIC Architect

- **Company:** Cerebras Systems
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Microarchitecture, Microprocessors, High-Level Architecture, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Optimization Algorithms
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d41fc92a24271fc0

## About the Role

* Masters/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering
 * 10+ years of experience across performance analysis and modeling across GPUs, CPUs or accelerator products
 * Strong background in computer architecture and key high level architectural trade-offs
 * Comfortable standing up new performance models from scratch in Python or similar analytical environments
 * Exposure to micro-code (kernel) performance bottlenecks and optimization techniques
 * Good understanding of how high-level workloads map to underlying micro-architecture is desired
 * Understanding of basic ML workload profiling techniques and model network architecture is preferred

## Description

* Translate high level architecture spec to micro-architecture feature requirements
 * Bring up new features in the performance/power model
 * Perform comprehensive PPA trade-offs for new architectural features
 * Extract insights for new features and micro-architecture power efficiency
 * Profile workloads, identify bottlenecks and project competition performance for benchmarking
 * Engage with SW teams for end-end application level modeling at cluster level
 * Identify kernel level HW acceleration level opportunities


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