PhD Research Intern, AI Accelerator Design and VLSI - 2027

Responsibilities

• Contribute to novel research advancing the state-of-the-art in the design of accelerators for AI and other high-impact workloads.
• Research creative and innovative ASIC and VLSI design techniques and/or novel digital VLSI circuits. Apply machine learning, agentic AI, and state-of-the-art tools and methodologies to automated ASIC and VLSI design tool flows.
• AI HW/SW Co-Design
• Research and develop creative and innovative numerical methods for quantization, sparsity, or tensor decomposition grounded in computer arithmetic fundamentals and digital VLSI circuits.
• Collaborate on the development of research prototype testchips.
• Collaborate with AI researchers and hardware team members in research and product teams.
• Plan to publish and present your original research.
• What We Need To See
• Pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Publication records in leading ML, architecture, VLSI, or circuits conferences.

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