CareerPlan

Staff Cloud Hypervisor Engineer, Compute

Sunnyvale, CA - USFull-time$215k–$260k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead architect for next-generation virtualization stack to deliver bare-metal performance for massive-scale GPU fleets and AI/ML workloads.

Role type

Staff Cloud Hypervisor R&D Engineer

Builds

Next-gen hypervisor environment with GPU/DPU first-class support and hardware pass-through

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Cloud Virtualization / Low-level Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Hypervisor internals, Kernel development, Low-level systems programming, CPU virtualization, Memory virtualization, Hardware-Software integration, C, C++, Rust, QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel debugging, VirtIO, vhost-user

Preferred skills

Rust for modern systems programming, Hardware engineering background

Technologies

KVM, QEMU, Rust, C, C++, Linux kernel, SR-IOV, VFIO, mdev, NVIDIA GPUs, BlueField DPUs, InfiniBand, RoCE, PCIe

Responsibilities

Lead R&D and implementation of core hypervisor components optimized for GPU fleets, Develop hardware pass-through techniques for near-zero latency, Solve high-stakes challenges like live migration for large VRAM workloads, Conduct performance research and profiling across the stack, Contribute to upstream open-source virtualization projects, Architect security boundaries for multi-tenant isolation

Seniority

Staff, Technical Leadership