Field Applications Engineer
About this role
About Us:
Why Join InspireSemi?
- Be a Pioneer: Get in on the ground floor of a hypergrowth startup! You'll be part of a small, dynamic team shaping the future of computing.
- Make an Impact: Your work will directly contribute to disruptive technology.
- Grow With Us: Seize significant growth and development opportunities.
- Rewarding Compensation: We offer a competitive salary, bonus potential, and meaningful equity.
- Flexibility: Benefit from a hybrid work model (with potential for fully remote for exceptional candidates) and flexible time off.
The Opportunity:
- Customer Solutions & Technical Enablement
- Serve as the primary technical expert during pre-sales engagements, guiding customers through the deployment, porting, and optimization of HPC and AI workloads on the Thunderbird "supercomputer cluster-on-a-chip" platform.
- Articulate the architectural advantages of Thunderbird and act as the first line of technical support to maximize workload performance.
- Product Feedback & Requirements Definition
- Translate customer-facing application bottlenecks, workload profiles, and functional requirements into actionable specifications for internal hardware and software engineering teams.
- Technical Content & Sales Enablement
- Develop high-impact technical assets, including proof-of-concept demos, application notes, whitepapers, and benchmarking guides, to accelerate customer onboarding.
- Design and deliver technical training programs for the direct sales organization, field engineers, and channel partners.
- Next-Gen Architecture & Modeling
- Collaborate with research and hardware design teams to develop, validate, and refine performance models for next-generation accelerated computing platforms.
- Strategic Relationship Management
- Establish deep, trusted technical partnerships with engineering leads, software architects, and technical executives across strategic focus accounts.
- Build seamless cross-functional bridges with internal engineering, product, and sales teams to drive rapid issue resolution and alignment.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience with development in one or more HPC-AI application domains.
- Programming Skills: Excellent C/C++ programming skills; proficiency in Fortran is a plus.
- Technical Knowledge:
- Working knowledge of Linux.
- Ability to measure and profile HPC-AI application-level performance at the node level.
- Working understanding of OpenMP, MPI, or related parallel programming models.
- Analytical Skills: Strong problem-solving abilities with the ability to analyze complex data and attention to detail.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly to technical stakeholders.
- Flexibility: Willingness to travel as necessary and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with competitive performance analysis.
- Experience with graph analytics or other compute-intensive workloads.
Company at a glance
InspireSemi provides revolutionary high-performance, energy-efficient accelerated computing solutions for High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI, graph analytics, and other compute-intensive workloads. The Thunderbird “supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip” is a disruptive, next-generation datacenter accelerator designed to address multiple underserved and diversified industries, including financial services, computer-aided engineering, energy, climate modeling, cybersecurity, and life sciences & drug discovery. Based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture, InspireSemi’s solutions set new standards of performance, energy efficiency, and ease of programming.
The Company is headquartered in Austin, TX and led by an accomplished team with a proven track record. It is leveraging an efficient, scalable fabless operating model with outsourced manufacturing partners (e.g.- TSMC, ASE). Leading industrial companies, national labs, and computer OEMs value our technology, innovative North America design team, and world-class supply chain partners.
Top Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Bonus Potential
- Equity
- Hybrid Work Model
- Flexible Time Off
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