Member of Technical Staff - Tokenomics

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Full-Time Work Setting:
In-office/Remote

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United States, New York, Mexico, San Francisco, Canada

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About Semi Analysis

Semi Analysis is an independent research and analysis firm specializing in the Semiconductor and AI industries. Our in-depth coverage spans the entire supply chain, from semiconductor fabrication processes to state-of-the-art AI Models, CUDA kernels, and GPU cloud infrastructure. We are recognized as the leading authority on AI infrastructure, with the highest concentration of industry experts within one team, and a deep-rooted passion for delving into the intricacies.

We’re a global team of over 20 analysts & engineers, each with extensive networks across the semiconductor supply chain and AI ecosystem, publishing industry-shaping articles while participating in 40+ conferences annually.

Our newsletter reaches more than 200 000 subscribers worldwide, including senior management and C‑suite leaders at the leading semiconductor and AI companies.

Some of industry‑shaping articles are:

• InferenceMAX:The world first open inference benchmark that continuous benchmarks performance of popular frontier models

• MI300X vs H100 vs H200 Training
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  Extensive Benchmarking & Deep Dive into CUDA & ROCm training developer experience & performance

• Trainium2 Architecture & Networking
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  Deep Dive into Amazon’s new Trainium2 rack scale system & 3D torus scale up topology

Find out more here:

• We are seeking a highly motivated & skilled Member of Technical Staff to join our growing engineering team.

• Member of Technical Staff will play a crucial role in developing inference benchmarks & system modelling

• You will also play a role in writing and preparing our newsletter articles for publishing, with the opportunity for direct authorship recognition.

• We are hiring individual contributors at all experience levels. Compensation will be competitive

• As part of the interview process, you'll complete a paid coding challenge designed to reflect typical daily tasks at Semi Analysis

• Competitive Compensation depending on experience, skillset, location & business needs

• Conduct training & inference performance benchmarks across various AI hardware (e.g. NVIDIA H100, AMD Mi300X, Google TPUs, AWS Trainium2) using frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, vLLM, SGLang, etc.

• Author detailed technical research reports analyzing benchmark results, hardware performance, scalability, & efficiency.

• Develop comprehensive system modelling using Python & NCCL for existing & future AI compute clusters, scaling from single-GPU setups to O(100k) GPU clusters.

• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships & collaborations with over 50 leading neocloud providers & AI chip manufacturers, including AMD, NVIDIA, and other industry stakeholders.

• Stay current on emerging trends & technologies by attending major industry & academic conferences such as NeurIPS, MLSys, NVIDIA GTC, AMD’s Advancing AI, etc.

• Proactive, self-motivated, and capable of working independently in a global team.

• Demonstrated experience in ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX through professional experience, personal projects, or personal Substack blogs

• Solid understanding of at least 1 of the following: transformer architecture, LLM parallelism strategies, and/or CUDA parallel programming

• Strong research skills and the ability to synthesize information from various sources to draw insights.

• English language proficiency required, Chinese language proficiency preferred

Why Semi Analysis?

At Semi Analysis, you’re placed directly inside the most important conversations shaping the future of AI and semiconductors. You’ll develop a first-principles understanding of the…