Senior Performance Architect

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. 

What We Offer

Location:

Bangalore,IND, Chennai,IND

You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. 

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As a Software Engineer at Applied Materials, you’ll dive deep into ground-breaking technologies—like machine learning and AI—to craft novel software solutions that solve our customers’ high-value problems. Our Software Engineers are responsible for designing, prototyping, developing, and debugging software solutions for semiconductor equipment components and devices to ensure quality and functionality. You'll develop software documentation and test procedures, troubleshoot software problems, and communicate with internal customers to understand project requirements. As part of our team, you'll contribute your expertise in intricate systems, deciphering code, and anticipating software behaviors to ensure Applied remains the leader in the semiconductor and display sectors.

About Applied

Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future.

Our Team

Our team is developing a high-performance computing solution for low-latency and high throughput image processing and deep-learning workload that enables our Chip Manufacturing process control equipment to offer differentiated value to our customers.

Your Opportunity

As an architect, you will get the opportunity to grow in the field of high-performance computing, complex system design and low-level optimizations for better cost of ownership.

Roles and Responsibility

• As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing High performance computing software solutions for our organization.
• You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders, to understand requirements and translate them into architectural/software designs that meet business needs.
• You will be coding and developing quick prototypes to establish your design with real code and data.
• You will be a subject Matter expert to unblock software engineers in the HPC domain.
• You will be expected to profile systems to understand bottlenecks, optimize workflows and code and processes to improve cost of ownership.
• Conduct technical reviews and provide guidance to software engineers during the development process.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and issues throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies and frameworks to meet project requirements.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex software components and systems.
• Ensure that software systems are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• Mentor and coach junior software architects and engineers.
• Your primary focus will be on ensuring that the software systems are scalable, reliable, maintainable and cost effective.

Our Ideal Candidate

Someone who has the drive and passion to learn quickly, has the ability to multi-task and switch contexts based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Perform analysis on complex workloads and kernels to identify performance bottlenecks that others miss.
• Experience in building and using CPU and GPU profiling and other performance analysis tools.
• Experience in performance profiling at application and system level (e.g. vtune, Oprofiler, perf, Nividia Nsight etc.)
• Expertise in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks within the AI/ML infrastructure and software stack.
• Experience in low level code optimization techniques using Vectorization and Intrinsics, cache-aware programming, lock free data structures etc.
• Design the benchmarks and modeling methodology that will define the next decade of Hardware/Software co-design.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization technologies (docker/singularity) and low latency Message queues.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Very good knowledge Data structure and Algorithms and complexity analysis.
• Experience in developing Distributed High Performance Computing software using Parallel programming frameworks like MPI, UCX etc.
• In depth experience in Multi-threading, Thread Synchronization, Inter process communication, and distributed computing fundamentals.
• Very Good knowledge of Computer science fundamentals like, Operating systems internals (Linux Preferred), Networking and Storage systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to mentor and coach junior team members.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies.

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in GPU programming using CUDA, OpenMP, OpenACC, OpenCL etc.
• Experience in HPC Job-Scheduling and Cluster Management Software (SLURM, Torque, LSF etc.)
• Good knowledge of Low-latency and high-throughput data transfer technologies (RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand)
• Good Knowledge of Work-flow orchestration Software like Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Apache storm or Intel TBB flowgraph etc.

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.