**Overview**

We are forming a small, agile engineering team to accelerate a new initiative focused on artificial intelligence (AI) performance - from micro-architecture exploration through end-to-end workload validation. You’ll work at the intersection of silicon, systems, and software, partnering cross-functionally with chip and system architects, as well as inference software engineers to drive data-backed design decisions and deliver step-function improvements in throughput, latency, and efficiency.

As a **Principal Silicon Performance Architect** on this AI acceleration effort, you will own performance modeling and analysis for current and future AI workloads. You will translate hardware and software architectural ideas into simulator implementations, run rigorous experiments across design variants, and turn results into clear guidance for architecture and product decisions.

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