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Advanced AI Workloads - Performance and Scalability Engineer

San Jose, CaliforniaFull-time2026-03-11 → 2026-10-22
No visa sponsorship

Core

Drive AI inference performance to the absolute limit on AMD GPUs by profiling, diagnosing, and optimizing leading models across the stack for customer-relevant serving configurations.

Role type

Senior IC performance and scalability engineer (AI workloads)

Builds

High-performance AI inference serving on AMD GPUs

Domain

AI systems, GPU computing, high-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU kernel optimization, distributed inference, profiling and bottleneck diagnosis, custom kernel integration, multi-node communication optimization, Python, C++, Linux systems, AI-assisted development

Preferred skills

AI serving frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM), model architecture knowledge (transformers, MoE), system and rack-level design, customer-facing technical leadership

Technologies

HIP, CUDA, Triton, CK, PyDSL, ASM, AITER, vLLM, SGLang, PyTorch, NCCL, RDMA

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end performance optimization across the stack; Profile, diagnose, and resolve cross-stack performance bottlenecks; Integrate and optimize custom kernels within serving frameworks; Optimize multi-node distributed inference; Lead customer-facing technical engagements; Upstream optimizations into open-source frameworks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership