David Munday

VP Software Etched

Santa Cruz, California, United States

About

Delivered ASIC software for 5 generations of one of the largest ML supercomputers (TPU) in the world. Execution responsibility on simultaneous product lines with $xB/year impact. Real-time AI agent systems & research, HW/SW co-design, world's largest AI super computers, custom ASICs video processing and hyper scale processors. Team leadership experience up to 150 software engineers.

Experience

  • VP of Software Engineering at Etched
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Leading AI software teams on the most ambitious hardware for frontier AI inference.

  • Principal Engineer at Google DeepMind
    Aug 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Project Astra Exploratory Research Lead. Worked with Demis Hassabis, building Astra, a multi-modal agent, delivering real-time mobile experiences across navigation (streets, buildings, airports, etc.) and information retrieval (facts, personal advice, medical inquiry, etc.). Domains include: Research, information retrieval, and synthesis, Personal productivity assistance and automation, educational tutoring, and advanced agent skill learning.

  • Director of Engineering - Servers, SmartNICs, SOCs SW at Google
    Apr 2018 - Jan 2025 · 6 yrs 10 mos

    Delivered ASIC software for 5 generations of one of the largest ML supercomputers (TPU) in the world. Led teams developing Google's worldwide Data Center infrastructure SW across Servers, Networking (SmartNICs, infrastructure NICs), and custom SoC products (Video transcode, Search etc.). Teams (100+ SWEs) developing Firmware, BIOS, Kernel Drivers, Host SW, and Tooling supporting Google's global-scale billion-user services including Search, Ads, YouTube, and Cloud.

  • Teaching Fellow at UC Santa Cruz
    Aug 2011 - Jun 2019 · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Course instructor for 3-quarter undergraduate Computer/Electrical Engineering Senior Design Course.

  • Intel Corporation (San Jose)
    • Senior Manager
      Apr 2017 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leading a team responsible for architecting, developing and verifying Xeon + FPGA programmable logic hardware and software products for Data Center acceleration.

    • Manager
      Jan 2016 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Leading a team developing and architecting Xeon + FPGA acceleration platforms, cloud orchestration and accelerator services for programmable logic in data centers.