Head of Performance Visibility
Etched · San Jose, CA · 2 wk ago
On-siteBusiness Development$200k–$300k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Mentorship And Leadership System-Level Performance Design
- Define the architectural approach for collecting and structuring telemetry across CPUs, drivers, interconnects, and multiple accelerators
- Design scalable models for correlating performance events across device and host boundaries
- Cross-Layer Event Correlation
- Develop mechanisms to align hardware counters, runtime activity, communication phases, and workload semantics across model-layer execution into coherent, actionable insight
- Implement time synchronization and trace-alignment strategies across multi-device systems
- Telemetry & Counter Modeling
- Define structured counter taxonomies separating base signals from derived metrics
- Design derived performance models bridging low-level hardware signals and workload-level behavior
- Influence instrumentation strategy for future hardware generations
- Distributed Performance Reasoning
- Build tools that identify bottlenecks among multi-accelerator workloads across chips within hosts
- Build cluster-scale performance analysis for distributed inference across data center networks
- Tooling & Insight Delivery
- Contribute to analysis engines and developer-facing tooling that transform raw telemetry into intuitive insight
- Shape how performance intelligence is surfaced to engineers debugging large-scale AI systems
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Variety of wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification