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Member of Technical Staff - GPU Performance Engineer

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2025-07-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and ship custom CUDA kernels to optimize AI model training and inference pipelines for low latency and minimal memory usage.

Role type

Senior IC GPU Performance Engineer

Builds

Custom CUDA kernels, PyTorch pipeline extensions, and performance benchmarks

Domain

AI/ML infrastructure, GPU computing, high-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Custom CUDA kernel development, GPU architecture knowledge (memory hierarchy, warps, tensor cores), low-level profiling (Nsight Systems/Compute), C/C++ programming

Preferred skills

CUTLASS experience, Triton kernel development, PyTorch custom op integration, benchmark harness construction

Technologies

CUDA, PyTorch, Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, C++, C, CUTLASS, Triton

Responsibilities

Write high-performance GPU kernels for novel model architectures, integrate kernels into PyTorch pipelines, profile and optimize training/inference workflows, build correctness tests and numerics checks, maintain performance benchmarks and guardrails, collaborate with researchers to ship speedups

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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