Junior​/Assistant Specialist - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The SLICE Lab at UC Berkeley aims to democratize the design, programming, and integration of domain-specific computing at scale so that a wide-range of applications can benefit from specialized hardware, extending the continued growth in computational capabilities for future-generation computing ecosystems.

Under the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI), the Junior/Assistant Specialist will provide specialized technical support for research on compiler systems, agentic AI, and hardware–software co-design for emerging heterogeneous computing architectures.

Responsibilities include:

• Implementing and integrating intermediate representations, executable specifications, compiler abstractions, and multi-fidelity architectural models into the lab’s research infrastructure. These tools will help researchers study the connections between application, compiler, architecture, and hardware-level decisions.
• Support experiments on agentic methods for automated design-space exploration, compiler synthesis and optimization, hardware specification refinement, and mapping machine learning and robotics workloads onto specialized accelerators and heterogeneous systems.
• The role will also includes developing testing and validation workflows, running benchmarks, and analyzing and documenting findings on programmability, correctness, performance, data movement, and architectural tradeoffs. The PI will set the research objectives and priorities.

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) or enrolled in Bachelor’s degree or equivalent international degree program