Performance Modeling Architect, HBM

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As a Performance Modeling Architect on the HBM Architecture team, you will be responsible for defining, developing, and deploying performance models that guide the architecture and design of next-generation HBM products. You will work closely with the architecture, design, firmware, and system teams to analyze workloads, quantify architectural trade-offs, and predict system-level performance.
This role is critical in enabling data-driven architectural decisions, bridging early architectural concepts with silicon results and customer use cases.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Research and prototype advanced memory and system architectures for AI accelerators (GPUs and custom AI accelerators).
• Develop architectural performance models at multiple levels of abstraction (HBM-level, GPU-level, rack-level, etc.).
• Model bandwidth, latency, concurrency, and contention behavior across HBM subsystems, memory controllers, interconnects, and interfaces.
• Analyze real customer and industry workloads (e.g., AI training/inference, HPC) to identify performance bottlenecks and scaling limits.
• Correlate performance models with RTL, emulation, prototyping, and silicon data to improve model fidelity and predictive accuracy.
• Drive memory hierarchy optimization across HBM, DRAM, storage, and on-chip structures (caches, SRAM, NoC)
• Develop power and performance models and evaluate architecture tradeoffs to guide roadmap decisions for future HBM generations.
• Collaborate multi-functionally to translate modeling insights into clear product and roadmap recommendations.

Required Experience

• PhD in Computer Architecture, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field (or MS with 3+ years of relevant experience).
• Strong understanding of GPU/accelerator architecture and system-level design fundamentals.
• Deep knowledge of memory hierarchy (caches / SRAM / NoC / HBM / DRAM) and AI workload behavior.
• Hands-on experience with performance analysis and/or modeling of GPU/accelerator systems.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python; experience with CUDA; familiarity with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow or PyTorch).

Successful candidates for this position will have

• Strong experience in performance modeling, system modeling, or architectural analysis.
• Solid understanding of memory subsystem architecture, especially HBM, DRAM, and high-bandwidth interfaces.
• Experience analyzing system-level performance tradeoffs (bandwidth vs latency, power vs performance, area vs scalability).
• Proficiency in model development using C++, Python, SystemC, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with SoC architecture, memory controllers, interconnects, and IP integration.
• Experience correlating models with RTL, emulation, or silicon measurements.
• Experience optimizing at a low level (e.g., PTX/SASS) and/or using GPU profiling tools.
• Publications or research contributions in AI hardware acceleration, memory systems, or rack-scale architecture.

The US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full-time position is:
$112,000.00 - $238,000.00 a year
Additional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity.
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