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.
To give you a sense of what you might work on, the software teams I manage at Lemurian have three major projects in-flight for the remainder of the year. One is improving our DNN compiler, which ingests and transforms pytorch programs/graphs into our own internal formats. Another is kicking off a dynamic scheduling runtime, which ingests the output of the compiler and dispatches work to various backends. The final project is a functional simulator of the proposed hardware architecture. It serves as an ISA/compile target while we bring up the silicon, as well as a correctness and debugging device for DV & RTL. There are a number of other projects at Lemurian that touch on the topics of Numerical Analysis, Hardware Architecture, ISA design and, of course, Deep Learning.
The team at Lemurian is absolutely phenomenal. 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 would love 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 [at] lemurianlabs <dot> com