CareerPlan

Senior GPU Inference Performance Engineer

Santa Clara, CaliforniaFull-time2026-07-09 → 2026-10-22
No visa sponsorship

Core

Own end-to-end performance analysis of GPU-accelerated AI inference workloads across the full stack from silicon to software runtime, driving competitive positioning against other accelerator vendors.

Role type

Senior IC GPU performance engineer (inference & distributed systems)

Builds

Competitive performance data, reproducible benchmarking harnesses, profiling scripts, and performance regression dashboards

Domain

AI infrastructure, GPU silicon, high-performance networking, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU profiling (ROCm, CUDA, Nsight), distributed systems debugging, Linux systems analysis, RDMA/RoCE networking, Kubernetes GPU scheduling, Python, C/C++, GPU architecture knowledge

Preferred skills

HPC background, multi-node inference optimization, open-source infrastructure contributions, hardware/software evidence presentation

Technologies

ROCm, CUDA, Nsight, NCCL, RCCL, RDMA, RoCE, Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, HIP, MPI, UCX, ConnectX, Pensando

Responsibilities

Profile and diagnose bottlenecks in GPU runtimes, OS, drivers, and memory subsystems; execute head-to-head benchmarks between AMD and NVIDIA GPUs; optimize distributed inference topologies and network-level performance; build automation for trace collection and performance validation; analyze GPU operator and Kubernetes stack overhead

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC