AI Benchmark Engineer

Founded in 2019 with the support of the European Union 🇪🇺, SiPearl embodies Europe’s dream of mastering the technological heart of its supercomputers: the microprocessor.

SiPearl is building Rhea, the high-performance, low-power European microprocessor dedicated to supercomputing and AI inference.

This new generation of microprocessors will first target EuroHPC Joint Undertaking ecosystem, which is deploying world-class supercomputing infrastructures in Europe for solving major challenges in medical research, artificial intelligence, security, energy management and climate with a reduced carbon footprint.

SiPearl is working in close collaboration with its 30 partners from the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium – leading names from the scientific community, supercomputing centers and industry – which are its stakeholders, future clients and end-users.

SiPearl Employs More Than 190 People In:

• France (Maisons-Laffitte, Grenoble, Massy, Sophia Antipolis),
• Germany (Duisburg)
• Spain (Barcelona)
• and Italy (Bologna)

SiPearl is part of French Tech Next 120 programme 2024 class.

About The Role:

We are currently seeking highly motivated R&D engineers to join our AI team, you will work closely with Etienne Renault, our Compiler Team Leader.

What a regular day at the job might look like:

• Evaluate, port, and optimize AI applications for our architecture.
• Estimate the performance of the next generation of high-performance chips developed at SiPearl.
• Participate in the optimization of AI frameworks and workflows to exploit heterogeneous memories and specificities of Arm architectures.
• Collaborate with other teams to guide the development of new optimizations.
• Improve the overall performance of AI and HPC workloads.
• Collaborate with customers and external partners, from both industry and academia, to gather information on requirements.
• Contribute to collaborative projects.

 What Would Make You Succeed In This Role:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in benchmarking, performance analysis and optimizing AI applications on various hardware
• Strong background in machine learning and deep learning techniques, notably LLM
• Hands-on experience working with deep learning toolkits such as Tensorflow or PyTorch.
• Experience in using/implementing/training/fine-tuning/optimizing foundation models or generative model
• Good ability to extract and analyze results.
• Proven experience with python/C++ programming, bash, and Linux
• Experience on ARM architecture
• Experience on vectorisation and/or heterogeneous memories
• Comfortable parallel/distributed paradigms
• Familiarity with ML infrastructures, such as MLIR
• Experience with natural language processing, computer vision, or audio processing generative models (including LLM, Diffusion models, GANs, VAEs..).
• Proven R&D experience
• Fluency in English is a prerequisite for success in this role, as effective communication in English is essential for collaboration and ensuring the seamless execution of responsibilities.

Dear candidate, even if you consider you do not fulfill all the qualifications mentioned above, please still apply and share with us why you believe you would be a good fit.

Recruitment process:

✔️Discovery interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner (30 min)

✔️ AssessFirst personality test – no need to worry, there is no wrong or right answer; our goal is to see beyond your resume (45′)

✔️ 2 Technical interviews (1h each)

✔️ Interview with one HRBP in order to answer to your last questions (30 min)

Benefits And Conditions:

• Contract: Permanent Contract (CDI)
• Benefits: annual bonus; meal vouchers (60% covered by SiPearl); health insurance (70% covered by SiPearl); 5 days per year of remote work from any EU location; illimited access and pre-paid sessions with a practitioner of your choice on our mental health partner app, moka.care; technical, linguistic and personal development trainings; BSPCE
• Work model: On-Site or Hybrid (2 days/week remote)
• 📍 Office: This role is open for our locations in France (Maisons-Laffitte, Massy, Grenoble and Sophia Antipolis), Spain (Barcelona) and Germany (Duisburg)
• Awesome activities such as: Hackathons, Training Challenges, Quarterly Kick-off sessions, team events, Company events and much more
• ⚠️ Please note that while we do not provide VISA Sponsorship, we are committed to assisting international candidates with the visa application process to the best of our ability.

Are you curious to learn more about us?

• Follow us on LinkedIn to stay updated with our latest news
• Get updated about our recruiting activities: Sipearl careers webpage
• Get to know a bit more about our team culture: Welcome to the jungle

At SiPearl, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that thrives on the strength of varied perspectives and backgrounds. We recruit talent based on merit, experience, and alignment with our company’s goals and values.

Whether senior or junior engineers; whether specializing in embedded firmware, microelectronics design, virtual prototyping, modeling & simulation or software development, the SiPearl team works with the best of global microprocessor technologies: multi-core architecture, Neoverse® V1 platform from industry leader ARM, 6nm fabrication process,