Field Applications Engineer

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.