Responsibilities
- Design, optimize, implement, and deploy high-performance transport protocols for AI/LLM applications.
- Design, optimize, implement, and deploy congestion-control algorithms for AI/LLM applications.
- Research high-performance AI communication frameworks and network protocol stacks.
- Develop host-network-application co-design optimizations to improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of AI/LLM networks.
- Track academic and industry developments, identify innovative system components, and present findings in academic papers.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a PhD in computer networking or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with network protocols such as TCP or RoCEv2, network programming using Socket or verbs APIs, or data-center congestion-control algorithms.
- Knowledge of scale-up protocols including PCIe, NVLink, and UALink and their differences from scale-out network protocols.
- Experience with high-speed network systems, including RDMA, congestion control, or AI network optimization.
- Proficiency in one or more mainstream programming languages, including C/C++, Python, or Go.
- Some knowledge of GPU architecture.
- Familiarity with AI training or inference systems and software-hardware co-design is preferred.
- Top-tier networking conference publications, such as NSDI, SIGCOMM, OSDI, or SOSP, are preferred.
- Experience developing high-performance communication frameworks, including NCCL, MPI, or RPC libraries, is a plus.
Benefits
- PhD internship with opportunities to contribute to products, research, future plans, and emerging technologies.
- Hands-on learning, community-building, and professional development events.
- Collaboration with industry experts.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and applicants should state their start and end dates in their resume.
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