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Lemurian Labs | Compilers, Hardware Simulation, Generalist SW Engineering | Principal, Sr, Intern | Full-Time | Remote-first, Global At Lemurian, we're building a hardware accelerator for AI that's dramatically different from most semiconductors humans have built to date. We're re-thinking everything, down to the level of ditching IEEE floating point in favor of our own, improved, format. All that's left to do is draw the rest of the owl. If you're looking for a truly challenging, engaging, and highly rewarding project, you've found it. The software team at Lemurian has three major projects for the year. One is a compiler which ingests models (think GPT-N, BERT, ImageWhatever, etc) and emits assembly the rest of our stack ingests. The second project in the pipeline is to ingest that assembly in a functional simulator (fsim), which emulates the hardware target at a slightly higher level than cycle-accuracy. The third project is tangentially related to, and builds on, the first two; validate the efficacy of the entire system. Some examples might be to analyze the tradeoffs of widening of our arithmetic type (think 8-bit vs 12-bit vs 16-bit), to quantifying the pressure on the L1 bus for different layers in BERT, to the efficiency tradeoffs between tiling a matrix multiply in one way, vs another. The team at Lemurian is absolutely phenominal. There are plenty of 25-year-plus career engineers on the team, both on the hardware and software sides. The majority of the team have come from companies like 3dfx, nVidia, Intel, AMD, Google .. you get the idea. We highly value free-thinkers, lifelong learners, and those that are fearless in the face of the unknown. We have no preconceptions about what education or background makes an ideal candidate; a good number of the team members have PhDs and are steeped in academia, and some are scrappy, self taught hackers. Everyone brings a strong desire to learn, and excel. If you're highly motivated to do challenging work, with the goal of a net-positive impact on humanity, we want to hear from you. If you made it this far, and you'd like to get in touch, I can be contacted by email: jesse@lemurianlabs.com