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AI Hardware Evaluations Engineer: Benchmarking GPUs Beyond MFU
Hardware-eval engineers measure real-world AI performance across H100, B200, MI300X, and Trainium with workload-specific rigor.
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- 1The premise
- 2GPU benchmarking
- 3MFU
- 4TCO
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Section 1
The premise
Hardware evaluations engineers help finance and platform teams pick between Nvidia, AMD, Cerebras, Trainium, and Groq based on real workloads, not vendor decks.
What AI does well here
- Measure model FLOPs utilization (MFU) on real training jobs
- Profile inference latency, throughput, and tokens-per-dollar
- Reproduce vendor benchmarks under your own thermal and network conditions
What AI cannot do
- Predict next-gen vendor performance from current data sheets alone
- Account for software-stack maturity differences month over month
- Override commercial terms that reshape TCO regardless of FLOPs
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