CareerPlan

Inference & Workload Optimization Lead (Horizon AI)

Full-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead the optimization of customer AI training and inference workloads on dedicated GPU clusters to improve speed and efficiency.

Role type

Principal GPU performance engineering lead (inference & workload optimization)

Builds

Autonomous agents that profile, tune, and optimize customer workloads; cost/latency-aware internal model serving routing.

Domain

AI Infrastructure / GPU Performance Engineering / Data Center Operations

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU performance engineering, workload profiling, distributed training and inference, collective communication tuning, serving stack expertise, memory and bandwidth optimization, kernel-level understanding, performance baselining, agent-encodable optimization logic.

Preferred skills

CUDA kernel development, open-weight model deployment at scale, benchmark design, customer-facing technical experience.

Technologies

NVIDIA GPUs, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, NCCL, Nsight, DCGM.

Responsibilities

Profile customer training and inference workloads to identify bottlenecks; establish performance baselines per hardware generation; encode optimization expertise into autonomous agents; tune workloads for committed-capacity customers; manage internal model serving routing and version migration; advise on GPU allocation between internal and customer workloads.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic scope.