Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-performance, low-latency, reliable DPU network software.
- Collaborate with hardware teams on software-hardware co-design for networking and storage acceleration.
- Explore DPU, GPU, and custom-hardware acceleration for distributed AI/ML training and inference.
- Optimize performance end to end across OS kernels, drivers, and user-space runtime systems.
- Contribute to architecture design, technical proposals, and long-term research directions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or a Ph.D. with strong research and publications.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience, with an exception for Ph.D. candidates with a strong background.
- Proficiency in C/C++ development and debugging.
- Strong Linux systems development experience.
- Solid understanding of compute, network architecture, and operating systems.
- Background in software-hardware co-design, distributed systems, high-performance networking, or AI/ML systems.
- Preferred qualifications include related Ph.D. research training and publications, network virtualization experience with OVS, SR-IOV, or eBPF, DPDK and high-performance user-space networking experience, and hardware acceleration experience with FPGA, ASIC, GPU, or CUDA.
- Experience with NCCL collectives, AI communication patterns, parallelization techniques, or AI/ML infrastructure such as inference KV cache and data preprocessing systems is advantageous.
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