CareerPlan

Senior AI Performance Engineer

US - AustinFull-time2026-10-09 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Analyze and optimize AI training and inference workloads across large-scale distributed systems by connecting compute, memory, communication, and software behavior.

Role type

Senior IC AI Performance Engineer

Builds

Efficient, reliable AI systems for large-scale deployment

Domain

AI compute, high-performance computing, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Profiling and optimizing AI/ML/HPC workloads, Distributed systems and communication libraries (MPI, NCCL, UCX, libfabric), C++, Python, Compute/memory/communication behavior in large-scale systems, Technical ownership and cross-team coordination, MLPerf and accelerated architectures

Preferred skills

ML frameworks, High-performance interconnects

Technologies

MPI, NCCL, UCX, RDMA, libfabric, MLPerf

Responsibilities

Design benchmarks, investigate system bottlenecks, optimize distributed communication software, turn profiling/benchmarking/modeling results into improvements, define investigations and validate impact with performance data

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC