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We bet everything on the logical conclusion: that the only way to truly unlock this latent value, to make speed viable at scale, was to radically re-invent the hardware that we run our frontier AI models on. Ever since, we have been building chips and systems that tackle this problem: how to efficiently generate output at thousands of tokens per second, while handling the complexity and capacity challenges of operating large models at very long contexts.\nThe workloads that push to the limits of the current frontier are already transformational; it is the technical and economic limits on inference speed that are constraining progress. The defining work of the 21st century will be marked by the engine of inference delivering immense and diffuse chains of intellectual inquiry, in drug discovery, in software engineering, in materials discovery, in any field where progress is driven by deep reasoning and intelligence to resolve complex problems. \nThe Role\nOn the device, close to the metal, we write the runtime software that orchestrates work across the chip and runs performance-critical ML kernels. This is where performance gets real and the wins compound. Your work directly influences trade-offs for the silicon, system deployment, and the compiler.\nYou'll drive the first accelerator compute runs, evaluating performance on silicon, running early benchmarks, and feeding results back into the hardware and software roadmap.\nWhat you’ll do\nWrite and optimise performance-critical ML kernels in C, with assembly where it matters (RISC-V and our own ISA)\nBuild the low-level control paths that feed those kernels, including scheduling, synchronisation, and data movement\nWrite targeted validation workloads and microbenchmarks to keep simulation and hardware behaviour aligned and performance measurable.\nProfile, benchmark, and track regressions so performance improvements are real and repeatable\nWork closely with simulation, hardware, ML, compiler, firmware, and runtime engineers in a tight loop, turning profiling data into architecture feedback and real performance wins.\nWhat we’re looking for\nProven deeply embedded software experience\nStrong performance instincts. You can reason about low-level architecture, memory behaviour, and where the cycles are spent\nExcellent C, and a pragmatic approach to building high-quality, maintainable low-level code\nComfortable writing and debugging optimised assembly (RISC-V ideal)\nCollaborative and high-ownership. 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