As the industry strives to meet the demands of the AI workloads, bottlenecks in data transfers between processors and memory have hindered progress. The Photonic Fabric based Memory Fabric provides an optically scalable solution to the ‘Memory Wall’ problem, enabling tens of Terabytes of memory capacity at full HBM bandwidths with low tens of nanoseconds of latency and extremely low power. The Photonic Fabric based Compute Fabric enables Terabyte class bandwidth between compute nodes at low latency and power. Photonic Fabric delivers a transformative leap in AI system performance, ten years more advanced than existing technologies.
Celestial AI is looking for a Principal Hardware/Systems Engineer to lead board and system design in collaboration with vendors and partners. The ideal candidate must comprehend technical and business requirements, translating them into practical solutions. With a strong sense of ownership and ability to navigate ambiguity, the candidate will work across engineering and product teams to deliver solutions efficiently. Responsibilities include defining board architecture, managing layout execution, and facilitating board manufacturing. This hands-on role emphasizes design for manufacturing, reliability, and cost for systems targeting Celestial AI's end customers. The candidate will drive technology deployment in data centers and ensure successful high-volume manufacturing. Strong project management, communication skills, and a proactive attitude are essential for this role.
- Build the board, associated system and solutions to convert application, solution, and business requirements from the customer into a feasible total solution
- Responsible for engineering Celestial AI compute systems for IP validation, Data Center, Rack Integration, and Deployment
- Work with internal cross-functional product and technical teams along with external vendors to engineer scaled accelerator systems that can be deployed in volume
- Develop strong technical relationships within the company, and externally with the vendors alike as a single point of contact for all system level design and manufacturing problems
- Frequently collaborate with industry peers and suppliers to stay abreast of industry advances and future roadmaps
- Actively manage qualification of data center hardware solutions, while operating within established cost and time constraints
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering related field is preferred
- 10+ years of experience in server-based solutions, rack and appliance based system solutions for the datacenter, with 2-3 years’ experience in complex systems project management.
- Hands on experience with board level, server hardware and architecture, prior experience troubleshooting server/storage/network products is a plus
- Expertise with Cloud Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, AI/ML and Systems Hardware (Blade and Rack Servers)
- Experience in Photonics is a plus.
- Proven record in successfully delivering data center solutions to meet customer demands is highly preferable
- Ability to lead and drive internal/external resources to accomplish key milestones and execute deliverables.
: Santa Clara, CA
As an early startup, we offer an attractive total compensation package, inclusive of competitive base salary and a generous grant of our valuable early-stage equity. The target base salary for this role is approximately $215,000 - $240,000. The base salary offered may be slightly higher or lower than the target base salary, based on the final scope as determined by the depth of the experience and skills demonstrated by the candidate in the interviews.
We offer great benefits (health, vision, dental and life insurance), collaborative and continuous learning work environment, where you will get a chance to work with smart and dedicated people engaged in developing the next generation architecture for high performance computing.
Celestial AI Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
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What We Do
Celestial AI is a Machine Learning (ML) accelerator company that has developed a proprietary technology platform which enables the next generation of high-performance computing solutions. Celestial AI’s mission is to transform data parallel computing with a proprietary Photonic Fabric™ technology platform which uses light for data movement both within chip and between chips.
Advancements in data communications have driven robust silicon photonics technology and volume manufacturing ecosystems that are ripe for commercial implementation of ML and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions which leverage integrated silicon photonics for data movement.
Celestial AI’s system delivers differentiated single node performance that scales efficiently, providing significant performance gains for multi-node and multi model applications. The scalability of Celestial AI’s accelerator architecture enables an efficient and performant mapping of data and compute over a broad range of ML model types without the need for complex software optimizations. Celestial AI’s competitive advantage will further grow over time as ML models continue to increase in complexity and size.
Celestial AI has assembled a highly experienced team of industry leaders who have a track record of building multiple successful technology businesses. The company’s Orion AI accelerator products serve an addressable market that is projected by Omida to exceed $70 billion in 2025
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