About us:

Mythic has developed a unified hardware and software platform featuring its unique Mythic Analog Compute Engine (Mythic ACE™) to deliver revolutionary power, cost, and performance that shatters digital barriers preventing AI innovation at the edge. The Mythic Analog Matrix Processor (Mythic AMP™) makes it much easier and more affordable to deploy powerful AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device. The company has raised over $165.2 million to date, has over 120 employees, and has offices in Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX.

About the role:

- We start with the networks we use currently and project the roadmap for neural networks in the visual inference space in the future.

- Through modeling, we determine the opportunities for power and performance improvements for current networks, as well as the needs and challenges of networks in the future.

- We propose and model architectural innovations to improve performance and energy efficiency on our next generation products on those target networks.

- We collaborate with the design and compiler teams, to define the appropriate chip-level and block-level specifications for ease of compiling networks and ease of design and verification, while still attaining our cost, performance, and energy efficiency goals.

- We review the implementation specification and verification and validation plans to assure that they match the intent of the functional specifications.

- We support the execution from design start through production on architectural and use case related questions.

Here is what you will do:

• Propose and investigate new architectural ideas, many co-designed with other system components as well as the software tool chain in mind
• Create tools to map network design entry representations (e.g. ONNX) to new architectural proposals and estimate throughput, latency, and power
• Create rapid prototyping models for estimating power and performance of new chip architectures (C++/SystemC)
• Collaborate with peer engineering teams to co-design and co-verify future architectures
• Author functional specifications and review implementation specifications, as well as validation and verification plans with an eye on intent of operation in the system context
• Further responsibilities will depend on background and skills

Here is the background we hope you have:

• Bachelors / Masters / PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• PhD + 5 years of industry experience or BS/MS + 10 years of industry experience required in chip architecture and modeling. This experience can include time spent in academic work, including papers, thesis, and dissertation work. The years required can be reduced if the work was related to systems for AI.
• Academic and work knowledge of CPU, memory system, and bus interconnect architecture
• Proficiency and experience with C++ / SystemC, as used in modeling for architectural performance
• Proficiency and experience with spreadsheet and scripting based estimation of architectural cost, performance, and energy efficiency
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken

The following would be nice to have, but is not required

• Experience with other Neural Network frameworks (Tensorflow, Caffe, ONNX)

At Mythic, we pride ourselves in creating a culture where all employees feel valued and appreciated for the diverse perspectives and backgrounds they bring to the team. We aim to hire smart people, give them the resources they need to do their job well, and then leave the rest up to them. We celebrate individual differences and encourage people to be comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. At the end of the day, we are committed to building a diverse workforce where everyone belongs.

Mythic is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. It ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We look forward to reviewing your application!