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Runtime Engineer

Mountain View (HQ) or Remote💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-05-27 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build the host-side interface library and runtime stack for custom silicon designed for large-language-model inference and training.

Role type

Senior IC Runtime Engineer (LLM inference/training stack)

Builds

Host-side interface library, executable format contracts, custom-kernel ABI, Python bindings, LLM inference serving stack, and cluster orchestration primitives.

Domain

Hardware/Software co-design for LLM inference and training

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Systems programming (Rust/C/C++/Go), Python interop (PyO3/ctypes/pybind11), ABI/contract design, accelerator programming models (CUDA/ROCm/oneAPI/TPU), ML-systems literacy

Preferred skills

LLM inference internals (vLLM/TensorRT-LLM/SGLang), Rust depth (proc macros/unsafe), custom allocator design, ML framework integration, profiler/tracing infrastructure

Technologies

PyO3, CUDA, ROCm, oneAPI Level Zero, TPU, DLPack, numpy, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, PyTorch, JAX/XLA, ONNX runtime, Perfetto, Nsight

Responsibilities

Build host-side interface library for device memory management and sync primitives; Own and extend executable format and compiler-runtime contracts; Design custom-kernel ABI and host-side marshaling layers; Build LLM inference serving stack with paged KV cache and request scheduling; Bring up interconnect topology and failure-detection paths; Design chip exposure for profilers and debuggers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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