Key Responsibilities:

* Collaborative engineering: Work within a larger team to rapidly develop proof-of-concept prototypes to validate research ideas and integrate them into production systems and infrastructure

* Performance Analysis: Conduct in-depth profiling and tuning of operating systems and large-scale distributed systems, leveraging heterogeneous hardware (CPU, NPU).

* Documentation and Reporting: Maintain clear technical documentation of research findings, design decisions, and implementation details to ensure reproducibility and facilitate knowledge transfer within the team.

* Research & Technology Exploration: Stay current with the latest advancements in AI infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, and operating systems. E.g. techniques to efficiently execute inference workload based on SW/HW co-design; exploit workload characteristics to prefetch memory/minimize communication.

* Stakeholder Communication: Present project milestones, performance metrics, and key findings to internal stakeholders.

Person Specification:

Required:

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

* A solid background in operating systems and/or distributed systems and/or ML systems.

* Excellent programming skills, master of at least one language, such as C/C++.

* Good communication and teamwork skills.

* Be comfortable with research methodology.

Desired:

* Familiarity with current LLM architectures (e.g. Llama3, DeepSeek V3)

* Familiarity with production LLM serving systems and inference optimizations (e.g. VLLM)

* Experience with accelerator programming (e.g. CUDA, Triton) and communication libraries (e.g. NCCL)