Master Thesis: AI Accelerator

Introduction
The hardware team in Boeblingen develops the most powerful server systems in the world – in an international work environment with our partner labs in the USA Israel and India. We are using modern verification methods and are continuously optimizing our development processes.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for a student interested in writing a master thesis with the following topics:

• Development of features within our compiler tooling targeting IBM’s AI accelerator.
• Work with close-to-the-metal custom assembly code.
• Develop features supporting functional verification of future AI accelerator hardware.
• Support end-to-end optimization of AI acceleration with analysis and tooling.

If you’re interested please get in contact with us and include in your response all relevant documents (preferably all in one single pdf file):

1. Cover Letter incl. your availability (earliest start and latest end date)
2. CV incl. your level of German
3. Certificate of enrollment from you university
4. Current transcript of records and other relevant certificates / references
5. Non-EU citizen studying in Germany: copy of passport residence and work permit
6. Non-EU citizen studying elsewhere: prove of identity incl. place of birth

We are looking forward to your application !

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Study of computer science electrical engineering or a similar direction
• Basic knowledge in AI models and frameworks e.g. PyTorch Tensorflow
• Proficient in writing code.
• Passion for digging into complex technical systems.
• Interest in low-level computer engineering.
• Very good command of spoken and written English.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proficiency in Scala Python or Java.
• Familiarity with compiler construction and assembly..
• Understanding of hardware design flow and functional verification.