Position Summary

Samsung, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, is founded on a simple philosophy – the endless pursuit of excellence will create a better world for all. At Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) and Advanced Computing Lab (ACL), we are building a center of excellence for Intellectual Property (IP) that is applied to high-performance computing devices (mobile, automotive, and other custom market segments) consumed by millions of people around the world. Come build with us!

Role and Responsibilities

• Perform semiconductor engineering research, design, development, and/or testing for firm products and/or devices for use in the electronic communication industry.
• Specify algorithms to implement advanced graphics workloads to optimize performance and power efficiency and enable new advanced features.
• Develop performance models and triage to fix performance related issues for a highly efficient mobile GPU.
• Navigating through innovation and continuous learning and contribute towards current and future plans strategy.
• Explore and contribute to the graphics pipeline, while broadening the knowledge in different aspects of GPU development.
• Work closely with the architecture, SW, and design teams to understand the architecture and micro-architecture of the GPU and its units and to triage and fix performance-related issues.
• Develop tools and methodology to correlate and validate performance models for performance tracking and projection.
• Identify architecture, micro-architecture, and implementation optimizations to improve the performance of the GPU and its units.
• Responsible for machine-learning approaches as an alternative to current 3D Graphics algorithms.
• Collect statistics to evaluate potential benefits of optimizations, prototype the algorithm to test functional correctness and specify the scheme in detail for next level of implementation in hardware and or software.
• Identify and implement applications to exercise new schemes over/in hardware models.
• Collaborate with hardware architecture, model, and software teams to define and develop microarchitecture, software implementation, and a verification plan.
• Investigate alternate approaches for important GPU workloads, incremental optimizations, and rebalancing to maximize performance in future key workloads.
• Work with software developers to understand important trends in future graphics and AI applications, problems faced by application and middleware developers.
• May work from home on a hybrid schedule within San Jose and surrounding areas.

Skills and Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.

Minimum Required Special Skills:

Completion of a graduate level course, research project, or internship involving the following:

1. CPU Architecture/ CPU Microarchitecture: Designed and developed high-performance CPU architectures with pipelining, superscalar execution, and out-of-order execution.

2. Operating Systems: Implemented operating system kernels with process scheduling, memory management.

3. Parallel Computer Architecture: Developed parallel processing architectures with multi-core, utilizing parallel programming models like MPI and OpenMP.

4. Cache Coherence and Memory Consistency: Designed cache coherence protocols, including MESI and MOESI, and implemented memory consistency models with strong and weak consistency.

5. Compiler Optimization and Scheduling: Optimized compiler techniques, including loop unrolling and register allocation.

6. RISC-V Pipeline and C/C++: Developed RISC-V processor pipelines with instruction fetch, decode, and execution, and programmed in C/C++.

Employer will accept skills gained in pursuit of university-level degree via coursework, projects, or internships. Skills may be gained concurrently.

Total Rewards

At Samsung – SARC/ACL, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $156,853 - $208,400. Your actual base pay will depend on variables that may include your education skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. This is an exempt position, which is not eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Samsung employees have access to benefits including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), free onsite lunch, employee purchase program, tuition assistance (after 6 months), paid time off, student loan program, wellness incentives, and many more. In addition, regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) are eligible for MBO bonus compensation, based on company, division, and individual performance.

Additionally, this role might be eligible to participate in long term incentive plan and relocation.

U.S. Export Control

This position requires the ability to access information subject to U.S. export control restrictions.  Applicants must have the ability to access export-controlled information or be eligible to receive a government authorization to access export-controlled information.

Trade Secrets

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