Staff Engineer, Inference Optimizations

• Technical Depth: 5+ years of experience in high-performance computing or AI infrastructure, with a proven track record of solving compute utilization and memory bandwidth bottlenecks.
• Gen AI Literacy: Deep familiarity with the Gen AI (LLM, VLM, LMM) landscape, including the specific quirks and architectural requirements of major model families.
• Optimization Expert: Hands-on experience with attention-layer optimizations and parallelization strategies across distributed GPU environments.
• Hardware Fluency: Comprehensive understanding of NVIDIA and AMD GPU architectures and their respective software ecosystems (CUDA, ROCm, etc.).
• Open Source Mastery: Extensive experience integrating, building with, and contributing to open-source software projects.
• Systems Design: Excellent system design skills, particularly related to low-level GPU programming - optimization, memory access patterns, and parallel execution.
• Leadership through Influence: Experience acting as a technical lead, driving design and delivery through cross-functional alignment and expert-level delegation.
• Low-Level Mastery: Deep understanding of GPU architectures (SMs, Warp scheduling, Tensor Cores).
• The Toolkit: Expert-level Triton or CUDA. If you’ve contributed to the Triton compiler or wrote custom CUDA kernels for a major LLM, we want you.

• $191,200 - $239,000

*This is a remote role

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