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CPU Software Intern

NUVACORE · Markham, ON · Hybrid

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About NUVACORE

NUVACORE builds for the stratosphere. Maximum performance. Absolute area efficiency. No compromise. A general-purpose CPU core designed to excel everywhere, from core infrastructure to advanced AI systems, including the continuous demands of agentic computing. Backed by Sequoia.

About the role

Understand how computer performance is measured at different levels of abstractions. Peel the onion to relate wall-time scores to low-level telemetry. For example, going from “this is slower” to “this is saturating memory bandwidth”. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Currently an Undergraduate in CE, EE, CS or NΨ
  • Familiarity with Computer Architecture and hardware fundamentals
  • Exceptional ability with some of the following: AI, System Programming, Computer Architecture or Computer lab operations
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working directly with foundry, CAD, and physical design partner teams
  • Flexible and open to tackling any challenge
  • Loves coding, experimentation, collaborating and sharing results with others
More about this role

At NUVACORE we're designing a new general-purpose CPU core for the sustained, intensive demands of AI infrastructure and agentic computing, not the workloads of the past. As a member of the CPU-software team, you will enable the design to achieve the target PPA (Power, performance, area) specifications by writing software and AI tools which we use in the lab. We write our own tools because custom-silicon needs custom-tools.

Telemetry is an interdisciplinary field ranging from low-level hardware interfacing, to pure numerical data analysis and GUIs. This is a chance to work with some of the best designers in the industry, in the middle–the intersection of hardware and software, of design and implementation, across pre and post-silicon.

Nobody will match every line of the list below, and we’re not expecting you to. Tell us which dimensions you’re strong on, and we’ll see where you fit in. Note you must be flexible and willing to grow in all dimensions. We will help you grow.

Understand how computer performance is measured.

Understand how computer performance is measured at different levels of abstractions.

Peel the onion to relate wall-time scores to low-level telemetry. For...

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