About SiPearl…

Founded in 2019 and financed by the European Union, SiPearl embodies Europe's dream of mastering the technological heart of its supercomputers: the microprocessor.

SiPearl is building Rhea, the world's first energy-efficient #HPC-dedicated microprocessor designed to work with any third-party accelerator (#GPU, #AI, #quantum). It will help Europe solving major challenges in medical research🧬, artificial intelligence, security 🛡️, energy management and climate 🌱while reducing its environmental footprint.

Since our creation in 2019, we host 170 collaborators in 6 offices:

• France (Maisons-Laffitte, Massy, Grenoble, Sophia Antipolis),
• Germany (Duisburg),
• Spain (Barcelona).

After a successful series A in 2023 (90M €), SiPearl has recently won an emblematic contract to equip Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, owned by EuroHPC and operated by Jülich Forschungszentrum (Germany). And as the dream of a European machine, crossing the 1 billion billion mark calculations per second thanks to an European microprocessor, is becoming reality, SiPearl is willing to hire 150 engineers by the end of 2024!

💻 About the role:

We are currently seeking highly motivated R&D engineers to join our AI team, you will work closely with Etienne Renault, our Compiler Team Leader.

🎯 What a regular day at the job might look like:

• Evaluate, port, and optimize AI applications for our architecture.
• Estimate the performance of the next generation of high-performance chips developed at SiPearl.
• Participate in the optimization of AI frameworks and workflows to exploit heterogeneous memories and specificities of Arm architectures.
• Collaborate with other teams to guide the development of new optimizations.
• Improve the overall performance of AI and HPC workloads.
• Collaborate with customers and external partners, from both industry and academia, to gather information on requirements.
• Contribute to collaborative projects.

🔍 What would make you succeed in this role:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in benchmarking, performance analysis and optimizing AI applications on various hardware
• Strong background in machine learning and deep learning techniques, notably LLM
• Hands-on experience working with deep learning toolkits such as Tensorflow or PyTorch.
• Experience in using/implementing/training/fine-tuning/optimizing foundation models or generative model
• Good ability to extract and analyze results.
• Proven experience with python/C++ programming, bash, and Linux
• Experience on ARM architecture
• Experience on vectorisation and/or heterogeneous memories
• Comfortable parallel/distributed paradigms
• Familiarity with ML infrastructures, such as MLIR
• Experience with natural language processing, computer vision, or audio processing generative models (including LLM, Diffusion models, GANs, VAEs..).
• Proven R&D experience

• Fluency in English is a prerequisite for success in this role, as effective communication in English is essential for collaboration and ensuring the seamless execution of responsibilities.

Dear candidate, even if you consider you do not fulfill all the qualifications mentioned above, please still apply and share with us why you believe you would be a good fit.

Recruitment process

✔️Discovery interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner (30')

✔️ Personality test - no need to worry, there is no wrong or right answer; our goal is to get to see beyond your resume (45')

✔️ Technical interview (45’) with our Compiler Team Leader

✔️ Interview with our VP R&D System & Software (45’)

💡 Benefits and conditions:

• Contract: Permanent Contract//CDI

• Benefits: meal vouchers (Sodexo), health insurance (70% covered by SiPearl), 8 to 9 RTTs, 5 days per year of remote work from any EU location

• Work model: Hybrid (2 days remote)

• 📍 Location: The job can be based in France (Maisons-Laffitte, Massy Palaiseau or Grenoble), in Spain (Barcelona)

• Awesome activities such as: Hackathons, Training Challenges, Quarterly Kick-off sessions, team events, Company events and much more

Are you curious to learn more about us?

• Follow us on LinkedIn to stay updated with our latest news
• Get updated about our recruiting activities: Sipearl careers webpage
• Get to know a bit more about our team culture: Welcome to the jungle

At SiPearl, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that thrives on the strength of varied perspectives and backgrounds. We recruit talent based on merit, experience, and alignment with our company's goals and values.