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Samsung Research America (SRA) · 8 hours ago

Senior, SoC GPU Architect

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $300K/yr

10+ years exp

Samsung Research America (SRA) is focused on innovative SoC architecture for future Samsung Galaxy products. The role of GPU Architect involves leading contributions to GPU sub-system architecture and collaborating with various teams to optimize performance and power tradeoffs.

Consumer ElectronicsDigital SignageInformation TechnologyMedical DeviceSoftware

Work & Life Balance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Propose innovative GPU Architectural and microarchitectural features to boost PPA (Performance, Power and Area) on various targeted workloads in next generation SOCs

Identify and deliver GPU subsystem architecture proposals for products in new and existing markets

Evaluate architecture proposal benefits in collaboration with team of SoC Architects and communicate the results across related engineering audiences (SW, HW, Architecture, Leadership)

Perform high-level performance modeling/simulation and analysis of GPU features, applications, benchmarks, and complex uses cases

Deliver architecture/microarchitecture proposals and specifications to the design team and articulate them effectively across audiences ranging from hardware & software engineers to architecture community peers, and to technology leadership

Collaborate with silicon bring-up and product teams

Collaborate across teams to bring architecture proposals to fruition across the SOC, Driver, OS, System through detailed documentations

Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results for architecture and microarchitecture optimizations

Qualification

GPU ArchitecturePerformance modelingMicroarchitecture specificationC/C++ proficiencyOpenGLOpenCLVulkanMachine learning optimizationCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsCross-functional teams

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer Science, related Science or equivalent combination of education, training and experience

15+ years of experience, Master's with 13+ years of experience or PHD with a 10+ years relevant industry experience

Strong background in GPU, or SIMD architectures

Experience specifying Architecture and micro-architectures spec

Implementing high-level functional and performance models

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working with cross-functional teams to drive technical solutions

Preferred

Deep expertise in GPU Architecture includes ISA development, core/shader micro-architecture, texture pipeline, caching, or memory subsystem design

Experience with GPU APIs, OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan

Proficiency in C/C++, SystemC

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python

Relevant hands-on experience with developing bit accurate architectural functional and performance models

Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results

Experience with hardware memory managements units, prefetching or memory subsystems

Experience with Multi-core systems and memory coherency

ML model optimization on GPU Architecture

Benefits

Annual bonus eligibility

Generous benefits to help you live life well

Company

Samsung Research America (SRA)

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Founded in October 1988, Samsung Research America (SRA) builds upon Samsung’s 40-year history in the Bay Area.

Founded in 1988

Mountain View, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.sra.samsung.com/

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