CareerPlan

Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Kernels)

San JoseFull-time$150k2026-10-15 → 2026-10-23
On-site

Core

Build agentic harnesses and operating systems to accelerate the production of frontier tokens and transform hardware building in an AI-native world.

Role type

Senior IC full-stack engineer (LLM agents & internal tooling)

Builds

LLM agents, full-stack internal products, data pipelines, and infrastructure for hardware engineering workflows

Domain

AI infrastructure / Hardware co-design / Frontier AI inference

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Full-stack engineering, LLM agent development, tool integration, context engineering, eval design, failure analysis, product sense, rapid domain learning

Preferred skills

Chip development, kernels, hardware, manufacturing, infrastructure, data engineering, DevOps, fine-tuning, RAG, multi-agent orchestration

Technologies

LLMs, MCP, transformer architectures

Responsibilities

Embed with kernels team to identify and solve high-leverage bottlenecks; Build and deploy LLM agents via tool-calling; Ship full-stack internal products from zero to one; Design evals and track adoption; Execute special projects with founders to hit critical milestones

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC