Hybrid Memory Systems Engineer

at Kandou

• Job title: Memory Systems Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Linux
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Saint Sulpice, Switzerland

About the role

• Memory Systems Engineer at Kandou focusing on DRAM subsystem design and FPGA prototyping in Switzerland. Collaborating on architectural performance simulations and validation plans for memory controllers.

Responsibilities

• Architectural performance simulations using application traces or synthetic workloads to quantify the effects of various memory subsystems
• FPGA prototyping of memory subsystems in the lab for functional and performance validation.
• Use of off shelf FPGA boards is acceptable.
• Analysis of configurations of memory controllers and their impact on computer system performance
• Participate in SoC architecture design and analysis particularly being responsible for memory controllers
• Assist the engineering team in formulating and executing design verification and validation plans around DRAM controller & memory

Requirements

• Must have designed a DRAM controller and tested it using either FPGA or ASICs
• DRAM performance modeling and characterization experience in either industrial or academic setting
• Correlate key application performance to DRAM subsystem capabilities either by gathering traces or by directed testing techniques in the lab.
• Key applications may be any one of databases, machine learning or search
• Working knowledge of Linux kernel with a strong preference for some development or testing work
• Architectural simulations of computer systems with a particular emphasis on DRAM subsystems