Senior ASIC Performance Modeling Engineer

Meta; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 178,000 - 250,000; Full time

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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 Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in ASIC design or silicon engineering.
• 5+ years in ASIC performance modeling or pre-silicon simulation.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python for modeling and tooling.
• Experience with cycle-accurate or transaction-level models using C++ and SystemC.
• Experience with data center/AI accelerator HPC workloads on custom silicon.
• Experience defining microarchitectural specs and cross-functional alignment.
• Experience with assembly and compiler technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and own performance modeling strategy for custom ASICs.
• Drive microarchitectural exploration across compute, memory, interconnect and I/O.
• Develop and validate pre-silicon models predicting post-silicon behavior.
• Create workloads and kernels for ML training and inference.
• Establish performance analysis methods, benchmarks, bottleneck analysis.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, and physical design to translate requirements.
• Co-optimize workload scheduling, firmware, and driver behavior with silicon.
• Lead reviews and communicate results to engineering leadership.
• Define long-term performance modeling infrastructure roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers in modeling techniques and best practices.
• Identify and close gaps between modeled and measured silicon behavior.

Skills

C++

Python

SystemC

Performance modeling

Microarchitectural analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

SystemC

C++

SystemVerilog

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