Benchmark Team Leader

**About SiPearl**:
Founded in 2019 with the support of the European Union, SiPearl embodies Europe's dream of mastering the technological heart of its supercomputers: the microprocessor.

SiPearl is building Rhea, the high-performance, low-power European microprocessor dedicated to supercomputing and AI inference.

This new generation of microprocessors will first target EuroHPC Joint Undertaking ecosystem, which is deploying world-class supercomputing infrastructures in Europe for solving major challenges in medical research, artificial intelligence, security, energy management and climate with a reduced carbon footprint.

SiPearl is working in close collaboration with its 30 partners from the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium - leading names from the scientific community, supercomputing centers and industry - which are its stakeholders, future clients and end-users.

SiPearl employs more than 190 people in:

- France (Maisons-Laffitte, Grenoble, Massy, Sophia Antipolis),
- Germany (Duisburg)
- Spain (Barcelona)
- and Italy (Bologna)

SiPearl is part of French Tech Next 120 programme 2024 class.

**About the role**

In this role, you will work closely with Vincent Casillas, our VP R&D System & Software, and, Etienne Renault, our Compiler Team Leader.

**What a regular day at the job might look like**:

- Work with cutting-edge technologies
- Estimate the performance of next-generation high-performance chips
- Participate in optimizing HPC frameworks and workflows for heterogeneous memories and Arm architectures
- Collaborate with other teams to guide the development of new optimizations and improve overall HPC workload performance
- Work with customers and external partners from industry and academia
- Contribute to collaborative projects and gather requirements
- Manage a team of approximately 10 people

**What would make you succeed in this role**
- 2+ years of experience in technical management
- Experience in RFP answering and/or collaborative projects
- Ensure a technical watch on latest benchmarks
- Good ability to extract and analyze results.
- Proven experience with C++/C/Fortran programming, bash, and Linux
- Someone adaptable, autonomous, good in problem solving
- Ability to synthetize and compare
- Able to learn new skills and adapt to our challenges,
- Ability to work with a community of experts on large scale projects,
- Fluency in English is a prerequisite for success in this role, as effective communication in English is essential for collaboration and ensuring the seamless execution of responsibilities.

**Experience in the following is a plus**
- Experience on ARM architecture
- Experience on vectorisation and/or heterogeneous memories
- Experience in parallel/distributed paradigms (OMP, Kokkos, MPI,)
- Experience with characterisation (micro-) benchmarks: HPL, HPCG, Stream, DGEMM,
- Proven R&D experience (publications in conferences/journals, collaborations in collaborative projects, familiarity with technical / research literature, )
- Good communication skills

**Recruitment process**

️Discovery interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner (30 min)

️ AssessFirst personality test - no need to worry, there is no wrong or right answer; our goal is to see beyond your resume (45')

️ 2 Technical interviews (1h each)

️ Interview with one HRBP in order to answer to your last questions (30 min)

**Benefits and conditions****:

- **Contract**: Permanent Contract (CDI)
- **Benefits**: annual bonus; meal vouchers (60% covered by SiPearl); health insurance (70% covered by SiPearl); 5 days per year of remote work from any EU location; illimited access and pre-paid sessions with a practitioner of your choice on our mental health partner app, moka.care; technical, linguistic and personal development training; BSPCE
- **Work model**: Hybrid (2 days/week remote)
- **Office**: This role is open for our locations in France (Maisons-Laffitte / Grenoble
- Awesome **activities **such as: Hackathons, Training Challenges, Quarterly Kick-off sessions, team events, Company events and much more

**Are you curious to learn more about us?**
- Follow us on LinkedIn to stay updated with our latest news
- Get updated about our recruiting activities: Sipearl careers webpage
- Get to know a bit more about our team culture: Welcome to the jungle
- At SiPearl, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that thrives on the strength of varied perspectives and backgrounds. We recruit talent based on merit, experience, and alignment with our company's goals and values._