Intern in Advanced Network Architecture

Kalray; Montbonnot-Saint-Martin; Hybrid; EUR 7,800 - 12,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Meal vouchers

Team building

Job summary

Kalray's UltraEthernet team is offering a 6-month internship in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin to contribute to the development and integration of UltraEthernet IP for AI datacenters.

You will learn RTL modeling, HW architecture concepts, and testing planning in a collaborative, agile environment, benefiting from hybrid work, meal vouchers, and activities while advancing your studies.

Qualifications

• C and C++ programming skills.
• Knowledge of high-performance networking, HPC and AI datacenters.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to defining HW support architecture for features in UltraEthernet 1.1/1.2.
• Model architecture to verify operation and integration, and evaluate performance.
• Define a test plan to ensure RTL implementation by design teams.

Skills

C

C++

High-performance networking

AI datacenters

Education

Third-year engineering student

Job description

As part of our UltraEthernet team, you will actively contribute to projects related to the development of Kalray’s UltraEthernet IP. You will contribute to improving Kalray’s IP offering in order to support the company’s activities and growth ambitions.

This internship will give you the opportunity to discover or deepen your knowledge of the electronics and cutting-edge technology sector, develop your skills and put into practice the knowledge acquired during your studies in an innovative and stimulating environment.

The UltraEthernet team specializes in cutting-edge networking technologies used in datacenters, particularly for AI-related applications. Its mission is to define the architecture of Kalray’s IP, evolve it, optimize its performance and ensure its interoperability. This requires a strong understanding of the technical specifications and network topologies used, as well as software models enabling us to explore different architectural scenarios and inform the design choices for our IP.

As such, your main responsibilities will be:

• Contribute to defining the HW support architecture for new features introduced by the UltraEthernet 1.1 and 1.2 standards (e.g., PCM, CSIG, MRC, etc.);
• Contribute to modeling this architecture in order to verify its correct operation, its proper integration into the current design and evaluate its performance;
• Contribute to defining a test plan to ensure the correct implementation of this architecture by the RTL design teams.

REQUIRED AND DEVELOPABLE SKILLS

• C
• C++
• Knowledge of high-performance networking, HPC and AI datacenters

PROFILE

• Third-year engineering student or equivalent educational background;
• Curious, ambitious and passionate about high-tech and applications resulting from new technologies;
• Enjoy working as part of a team and taking initiatives;
• Enthusiastic about being part of a human adventure and working in an agile environment;
• You are comfortable in English, particularly in a technical context.

Are you passionate about high-tech and cutting-edge technologies? Do you want to be part of a human adventure and develop in an agile, dynamic and collaborative environment? This internship is for you.

CONTRACT

• Contract type: Internship agreement
• Duration: 6 months
• Compensation: Depending on level of study
• Collective agreement: Metallurgy
• Benefits: Hybrid work, meal vouchers, team building and other activities such as laser tag, escape games, sailing, skiing, go-karting, karaoke and much more!
• Location: Montbonnot(38)

ABOUT KALRAY

Founded in 2008 as a spin-off from CEA, Kalray is a leading European semiconductor company, backed by major industrial investors such as Safran, NXP Semiconductors and Bpifrance. With more than 30 patent families and more than €100 million invested in R&D, our technology is paving the way for a new era in data processing.

Thanks to their patented “manycore” architecture, Kalray’s MPPA® intelligent processors (known as DPU or xPU) are capable of managing multiple data streams in parallel – and without bottlenecks – enabling applications that process massive amounts of data to become smarter, more efficient and more energy-efficient, complementing traditional approaches (CPU and GPU).

Kalray’s offering includes hardware and software acceleration solutions, as well as a co-development – or design‑ondemand – offering for processors and acceleration solutions optimized for specific uses in high‑growth sectors such as data centers, AI gigafactories, 5G networks, Industry 4.0, space and defense, and many others.

Above all, Kalray is a team of passionate, enthusiastic and committed people who place excellence and collaboration at the heart of their work. Whether you are an intern or an apprentice, we will do everything we can to help you fully express your talent, develop your potential and contribute to the company’s success.

Our offices are located near Grenoble, in the French Alps, and we also have additional offices near Nice, in Sophia Antipolis, as well as in Romania.

We’re always looking for people with unique backgrounds and skill sets. If you don’t see a role that works for you, but you believe you have something to offer, drop us a line and tell us your story.