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Senior AI Software Architect

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead end-to-end software architecture and performance optimization for AI accelerator platforms, guiding hardware-software co-design decisions.

Role type

Senior AI Software Architect

Builds

Production-scale AI systems, distributed training and inference frameworks, and serving infrastructure.

Domain

AI, Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, system software design, performance optimization, workload analysis, numerical correctness debugging, distributed synchronization debugging, hardware-software co-design

Preferred skills

Experience with loss curves, convergence behavior, gradient flow, activation statistics, mixed-precision instability

Technologies

Kernels, compilers, runtime layers, distributed training frameworks, inference frameworks

Responsibilities

Prototype and validate software capabilities across kernels, compiler and runtime layers, distributed training and inference frameworks, and serving infrastructure; Analyze workload behavior at scale to identify performance bottlenecks, numerical correctness issues, and system-level efficiency opportunities; Define requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver practical solutions for production-scale AI systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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