Rtl Hw For Ai

Job Reference

849_24_CS_HPDA_RE1

Position

RTL HW for AI (RE1)

Closing Date

Sunday, 15 December, 2024
Reference: 849_24_CS_HPDA_RE1
Job title: RTL HW for AI (RE1)

About BSC

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for Euro HPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.

If you consider that you do not meet all the requirements, we encourage you to continue applying for the job offer. We value diversity of experiences and skills, and you could bring unique perspectives to our team.

Context And Mission

BSC participates in the AI4Science Fellowship program (AI4S), a talent attraction and retention program aimed at the convergence of HPC and AI, as well as the creation and consolidation of research lines within the departments of the BSC-CNS, leveraging the computational capabilities of Mare Nostrum 5. This initiative is part of the talent attraction and retention programs within investment 4 of component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan, C005/24-ED CV1.
Our mission is to analyze and characterize the performance of large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads to propose novel High Performance Computing (HPC) hardware accelerators. Such accelerators will address the increasingly important challenge of irregular memory accesses and sparsity in AI workloads such as recommender models, sparse large language models and graph learning models, among others.
Our research group is looking for a highly motivated research engineer interested in accelerating AI applications with novel HPC architectures. Come join our group to address the challenge of accelerating sparse computations in fundamental AI workloads with increasingly large and complex datasets. In this exciting role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic team of researchers and engineers, contributing to leading scientific research.

Key Duties

- Research on acceleration of AI workloads using software and hardware optimization techniques.
- Implement novel accelerators in Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and integrate the accelerators in the Open Piton framework.
- Write scientific papers and actively engage in ongoing research lines and activities.
- Coordinate and attend project meetings, collaborate with other MSc/Ph D students in the group, and contribute to research teams and project deliverables.

Requirements

- Education

- Degree/Master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering (or a related area).

- Publications in recognized computer science or AI conferences or journals are a plus, but not essential.

- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Strong background in hardware design, computer architecture, and performance analysis.

- Advanced skills in HDL, such as System Verilog, VHDL, Chisel, Bluespec, etc.

- Expertise in AI algorithms and data structures.

- Expertise in C/C++ programming, performance engineering, and low-level optimizations.

- Expertise in Python, Bash and basic Linux.

- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Experience with CUDA or FPGA programming is a plus but not essential.

- Experience with R and Matlab is a plus but not essential.

- Experience with HPC environments and applications, but not essential

- Competences

- Problem-solving, highly proactive, and result-oriented work attitude.

- Strong teamwork skills and capability to work with international partners.

- Strong communication skills, including proficiency in both written and verbal English.

- Autonomy in researching and exploring new problems and lines of inquiry.

Conditions

- The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
- Starting date: 01/02/2025

Applications procedure and process

All applications must be made through BSC website and contain:

- A full CV in English including contact details

- A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered

In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.

The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.

At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment (at) bsc (dot) es.

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Deadline

The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

OTM-R principles for selection processes

BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R). This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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