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Performance Modeling Lead

San Francisco, CA

$342k-$555k / year

full-timelead Hybridai-ml

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll build and lead a team developing performance modeling frameworks to guide AI infrastructure designs. Your work will directly influence reference architectures and vendor roadmaps through quantitative analysis. You'll partner with research, software, and hardware teams to optimize system-level tradeoffs for advanced AI workloads.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Build and own performance modeling framework/toolchain for AI systems.
  • Analyze architectural tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking.
  • Translate modeling outputs into clear recommendations for teams and vendors.
  • Lead and grow a small team of 2โ€“3 engineers.

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • Experience owning or building performance modeling frameworks for system design decisions.
  • Deep knowledge of AI/ML workloads including training and/or inference at scale.
  • Understanding of system-level tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking in large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience using modeling (analytical or simulation) to inform architectural decisions.

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience working with hardware vendors (ODM/JDM, silicon, networking).
  • Background in data center infrastructure or hyperscale systems.
  • Familiarity with accelerators (GPUs/ASICs) and interconnects (e.g., NVLink, InfiniBand, Ethernet).

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Competitive equity package included.
  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Hybrid work model with 3 days in office per week.
  • ๐Ÿšš Relocation assistance provided.
  • ๐Ÿฅ Comprehensive benefits (not specified but implied).
  • ๐Ÿง  Impactful work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screenยท 30-45 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Onsite (multiple rounds)ยท 3-4 hours
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