Senior ASIC Performance Architect & Modeling

Meta; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 178,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Silicon Engineering organization is building custom silicon solutions that power Meta's AI and data center workloads at scale. As an ASIC Engineer specializing in performance and modeling, you will define and drive the architectural performance analysis, pre-silicon modeling, and microarchitectural exploration of custom ASICs designed for Meta's infrastructure.

In this role, you will establish the performance modeling methodology and long-term silicon roadmap strategy, partnering with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years in ASIC design, silicon engineering, or equivalent field.
• 5+ years in ASIC performance modeling, microarchitectural analysis, or pre-silicon simulation.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python for simulation models and automation.
• Experience with cycle-accurate or transaction-level models using C++/SystemC.
• Experience with data center, AI accelerator, or HPC workloads on custom silicon.
• Experience defining microarchitectural specs and cross-functional alignment.
• Experience with assembly languages and compiler tech.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the performance modeling strategy for custom infrastructure ASICs.
• Drive microarchitectural exploration across compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O.
• Develop and validate pre-silicon performance models predicting post-silicon behavior.
• Develop workloads and kernels for ML training and inference.
• Establish performance benchmarking frameworks and bottleneck techniques.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, and PD teams to translate requirements.
• Partner with software teams to optimize workloads against silicon performance.
• Lead cross-functional reviews and communicate results to leadership.
• Define long-term performance modeling roadmaps and tooling investments.
• Mentor engineers on performance modeling techniques and methods.
• Identify and resolve gaps between modeled and measured silicon behavior.

Skills

C++

Python

SystemC

Performance modeling

Microarchitectural analysis

Pre-silicon simulation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SystemVerilog

VHDL

SystemC

Job description

Meta's Silicon Engineering organization is building custom silicon solutions that power Meta's AI and data center workloads at scale. As an ASIC Engineer specializing in performance and modeling, you will define and drive the architectural performance analysis, pre-silicon modeling, and microarchitectural exploration of custom ASICs designed for Meta's infrastructure.

In this role, you will establish the performance modeling methodology and long-term silicon roadmap strategy, partnering with