Field Applications Engineer

### About Us

At InspireSemi, we're not just building chips; we're revolutionizing high-performance computing. Our groundbreaking architecture packs thousands of 64-bit CPU cores onto a single chip, all seamlessly connected. We're driven by a mission to make high performance computing more accessible, energy-efficient, and easier for developers to harness. Ready to make a real impact? Join our passionate team!

### Why Join InspireSemi?

• **Be a Pioneer:** Get in on the ground floor of a hypergrowth startup! You'll be part of a small, dynamic team shaping the future of computing.
• **Make an Impact:** Your work will directly contribute to disruptive technology.
• **Grow With Us:** Seize significant growth and development opportunities.
• **Rewarding Compensation:** We offer a competitive salary, bonus potential, and meaningful equity.
• **Flexibility:** Benefit from a hybrid work model (with potential for fully remote for exceptional candidates) and flexible time off.

### The Opportunity

We're looking for a talented and driven Applications Engineer to help our customers deploy and optimize their software on our new accelerated computing platform. In this high-impact role, you will be a key technical resource, applying your programming and performance tuning skills to a wide range of cutting-edge HPC-AI workloads.

**What You'll Do:**

• **Customer Support:** Assist customers in deploying and optimizing their software applications and libraries to our revolutionary Thunderbird accelerated computing platform.
• **Performance Tuning:** Profile and identify bottlenecks in a range of HPC-AI applications.
• **Software Acceleration:** Implement creative algorithmic and software solutions to solve bottlenecks and accelerate software on the Thunderbird platform.
• **Requirement Gathering:** Help translate application performance issues and requirements into actionable feedback for software features and hardware teams.
• **Technical Content:** Assist in creating demos, application notes, and other technical documentation to help speed customer adoption.
• **Future Architecture:** Support the development of performance models for future generations of accelerated computing architectures.

**What You Bring:**

• **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• **Experience:** Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience with development in one or more HPC-AI application domains.
• **Programming Skills:** Excellent C/C++ programming skills; proficiency in Fortran is a plus.
• **Technical Knowledge:**
• Working knowledge of Linux.
• Ability to measure and profile HPC-AI application-level performance at the node level.
• Working understanding of OpenMP, MPI, or related parallel programming models.
• **Analytical Skills:** Strong problem-solving abilities with the ability to analyze complex data and attention to detail.
• **Communication:** Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly to technical stakeholders.
• **Flexibility:** Willingness to travel as necessary and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

**Bonus Points:**

• Experience with competitive performance analysis.
• Experience with graph analytics or other compute-intensive workloads.

If you're excited about pushing the boundaries of computing and working on truly innovative technology in a rewarding environment, we'd love to hear from you!