Performance Tools Intern — Profiling a Next-Gen ML Accelerator

The Consensus; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Etched in San Jose is seeking a talented intern to design and develop a performance analysis tool for our ML accelerator. You will build tooling to understand workload behavior, identify bottlenecks, and help optimize hardware and software interactions.

Work with hardware, compiler, firmware, and inference engineers in an in-person setting. Strong coding skills in C++ or Rust, plus Python, will help you contribute from day one.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C++ or Rust with strong systems programming background.
• Interest or experience in low-level performance analysis and profiling.
• Familiarity with hardware performance counters, traces, and CPUs/accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Build components of our performance analysis and profiling infrastructure.
• Collect and analyze performance data from custom ML accelerators, including hardware counters, execution traces, and memory behavior.
• Develop tooling to trace host-side runtime activity, system behavior, and accelerator execution.
• Help correlate performance events across CPUs, accelerators, storage, networking, and distributed workloads.
• Build analysis and visualization tools that help engineers identify performance bottlenecks and optimize models.
• Work alongside hardware, compiler, firmware, and inference engineers to understand performance challenges and develop tools that improve developer productivity.

Skills

C++

Rust

Python

Tools

Nsight

VTune

Perfetto

Xprof

Job description

Etched in San Jose is seeking a talented intern to design and develop a performance analysis tool for our ML accelerator. You will build tooling to understand workload behavior, identify bottlenecks, and help optimize hardware and software interactions.

Work with hardware, compiler, firmware, and inference engineers in an in-person setting. Strong coding skills in C++ or Rust, plus Python, will help you contribute from day one.