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As a member of the CPU-software team, you will enable the design to achieve the target PPA (Power, performance, area) specifications by writing software and AI tools which we use in the lab. We write our own tools because custom-silicon needs custom-tools.\nTelemetry is an interdisciplinary field ranging from low-level hardware interfacing, to pure numerical data analysis and GUIs. This is a chance to work with some of the best designers in the industry, in the middle-the intersection of hardware and software, of design and implementation, across pre and post-silicon.\nNobody will match every line of the list below, and we’re not expecting you to. Tell us which dimensions you’re strong on, and we’ll see where you fit in. Note you must be flexible and willing to grow in all dimensions. 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