Principal Software Engineer, Performance Analysis and Modeling (AI)

Location: Hybrid onsite at the Santa Clara, California headquarters three days per week; remote work considered within the United States.

Salary: $175,000–$285,000 per year, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global develops software and hardware innovations that use generative AI and AI inference accelerators to transform technology.

What you will do

• Analyze ML workloads, multimodal LLMs, chain-of-thought reasoning models, and video/audio generation for performance-relevant properties.
• Build and maintain analytical performance models for current and future hirify.global hardware generations.
• Develop and extend architecture simulators for proposed hardware and software features.
• Collaborate with hardware design, compiler, inference server, kernel, and product teams to validate assumptions and identify downstream implications.
• Track ML architecture and algorithm research and incorporate relevant findings into modeling work.
• Recommend hardware/software improvements and document modeling methodologies and findings.

Requirements

• BSEE with 6+ years of industry experience or MSEE with 4+ years of industry experience.
• Working knowledge of computer architecture, hardware/software co-design, performance modeling, and ML fundamentals, particularly DNNs.
• Programming fluency in C/C++ or Python.
• Experience building or using analytical performance models or architecture simulators.
• Self-motivated, collaborative, and comfortable working across hardware and software teams.

Nice to have

• Experience optimizing AI/ML workloads on accelerator technologies.
• Research or investigation experience in AI/ML architecture or microarchitecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and inclusive environment centered on respect, humility, and direct communication.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) benefits and an inclusive rewards plan supporting employee wellbeing.
• Additional incentive opportunities based on individual and company performance.