Axelera AI
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Enterprise
Axelera AI is a leading provider of AI hardware acceleration technology tailored for generative AI and computer vision inference. The company offers advanced AI processing units designed to integrate seamlessly into innovations, focused on delivering high-performance, cost-effective, and energy-efficient AI solutions. Axelera AI's flagship product, the Metis AI Processing Unit, accelerates inference at the edge, making it ideal for applications like video analysis and multi-channel video analytics. The company is recognized for its deep tech innovations and is actively contributing to the advancement of AI by providing state-of-the-art AI acceleration capabilities for edge computing.
Staff Engineer – CPU & ISA Architecture
October 14
Axelera AI
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Enterprise
Axelera AI is a leading provider of AI hardware acceleration technology tailored for generative AI and computer vision inference. The company offers advanced AI processing units designed to integrate seamlessly into innovations, focused on delivering high-performance, cost-effective, and energy-efficient AI solutions. Axelera AI's flagship product, the Metis AI Processing Unit, accelerates inference at the edge, making it ideal for applications like video analysis and multi-channel video analytics. The company is recognized for its deep tech innovations and is actively contributing to the advancement of AI by providing state-of-the-art AI acceleration capabilities for edge computing.
📋 Description
• Research, design, and evaluate CPU microarchitectural components (pipelines, fetch/decode, branch prediction, caches, memory hierarchy, OoO/rename/issue, interconnects, SIMD/vector/matrix units). Analyze and optimize PPA trade-offs for AI, HPC, and cloud workloads. • Build and validate performance/functional models, run simulations, and correlate results to RTL to guide architectural decisions. • Develop and evaluate architectural extensions within RISC-V; assess their performance, programmability, and toolchain compatibility. • Propose, model, and prototype new mechanisms to improve efficiency, scalability, and performance. • Work closely with hardware, compiler, and system teams to align roadmaps and enable new capabilities. Stay ahead of trends in CPU, memory, interconnect, and AI-adjacent architectures.
🎯 Requirements
• MS/PhD in CE/EE/CS (or related field) with focus on CPU architecture or microarchitecture. • Deep expertise in CPU design (pipelines, memory systems, coherence, SIMD/vector/matrix units), PPA optimisation, and ISA extensions (RISC-V, ARM, x86). • Skilled in performance modeling and simulation (e.g., gem5, ChampSim, Sniper, QEMU), cycle-accurate and trace-driven analysis, and correlation to RTL. • Experienced in benchmarking and workload characterisation (SPEC, MLPerf, or internal suites). • Proficient in RTL design and validation (Verilog/SystemVerilog/Chisel), including simulation, synthesis, and FPGA/emulation bring-up. • Knowledge of compiler/toolchain integration, low-level software (C/C++/assembly), Linux kernel/driver development, and performance tuning for ISA features. • Strong analytical, collaborative, and communication skills with proven ability to drive architectural proposals from concept to validation. • Fluent in English • Able to work from one of our European offices or remotely, preferably based in Bavaria (Munich), Belgium, or Italy.
🏖️ Benefits
• pension plan • extensive employee insurances • option to get company shares
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