Staff Silicon Characterization Engineer

Untether AI; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is revolutionizing AI technology with its cutting-edge silicon characterization. As an engineering expert, you will play a crucial role in optimizing chip performance, power, and yield through innovative experimentation and data analysis. This dynamic startup offers a collaborative environment where your contributions will directly impact the future of AI. With a focus on both capability and potential, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a passionate team dedicated to building groundbreaking hardware and software solutions. If you are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

20 vacation days

Strong health benefits

Unlimited sick days

Stock options

Innovative work environment

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in silicon characterization and chip binning.
• Ability to analyze data and define experiments effectively.

Responsibilities

• Own technical aspects of chip binning from design to analysis.
• Collaborate with teams to set product definitions and requirements.

Skills

Silicon characterization

Data analysis

Chip binning

Yield recovery

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Job description

Untether AI has built the world’s highest-performance, energy-efficient AI inference accelerator. We are a Toronto-based startup with employees across Canada and the US (and even a few outside North America), and we are rapidly growing to scale out our second-generation product while developing our third.

We are searching for an engineering expert on silicon characterization to help us define the production operating points of our silicon. You will design experiments, analyze data and make recommendations on how to bin our chips to optimize the performance, power, and yield.

Responsibilities:

• Own all technical aspects of chip binning from design of experiments to data analysis.
• Collaborate with the Product Team to set preliminary and final product definitions.
• Set requirements for the Validation Team to create appropriate tests.
• Work with the Product and Test Team to correlate results with ATE.
• Participate in chip design as necessary to ensure we deliver the best product.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

• 7+ years of experience binning large chips (CPUs, GPUs, SOCs, NICs, etc).
• Ability to define and run experiments and analyze the data.
• Deep understanding of silicon variation across process, frequency, temperature.
• Experience with yield recovery, repair, floor sweeping, or similar.
• Clear vision for how to organize and present vast quantities of data.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Track record of cross-functional collaboration with technical and non-technical teams.

What are some of the perks that you will receive being part of Untether AI?

• 20 vacation days.
• Strong health and extended health benefits.
• Unlimited sick days.
• Stock options.
• Building hardware and software that will change the world.

Thinking about applying?

• We’re a pretty welcoming bunch of people. If we’ve piqued your interest, you’re passionate about the same things we are but you aren’t sure if you check all the boxes, please apply anyway. We’re a great place to work, an even better place to learn and we focus on both capability and potential!

A little bit more about Untether AI

Untether AI has developed a groundbreaking new architecture that brings neural net inference to new levels of performance and efficiency. We’ve already sold our product to smart clients who want to get in at ground zero. We’ve done this while continuing to improve our technology creating ultra-efficient, high performance AI chips that eliminates the data movement bottleneck that costs energy and performance in traditional architectures. We’re a team made up of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs and have the support of tier one investors. Join us to be part of something big - a chance to create the future of AI.