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Software Engineer – GPU Kernel

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5 months ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and optimize high-performance GPU kernels for AI inference, including GEMM, attention, and routing.
  • Develop and maintain GPU code in CUDA and C++, including low-level assembly when needed.
  • Implement reduced-precision and quantized FP8 and FP4 kernels for low-latency and high-throughput inference.
  • Benchmark NVIDIA and AMD hardware and ensure cross-vendor performance parity.
  • Contribute to internal GPU libraries and tune performance-critical components.
  • Accelerate multimodal model pipelines.
  • Investigate and integrate next-generation GPU features.
  • Collaborate with the platform team to deploy optimized inference work into production.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in GPU programming, HPC, or performance-critical systems.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Strong proficiency in CUDA for NVIDIA GPUs or ROCm/HIP for AMD GPUs.
  • Deep understanding of GPU architecture, including warps, threads, memory hierarchy, synchronization, and latency-throughput trade-offs.
  • Proficiency in C++.
  • Experience with GPU profiling and performance tuning.
  • Strong numerical background, including precision trade-offs and quantization techniques.
  • Preferred experience optimizing transformer, multimodal, or Mixture-of-Experts architectures at the kernel level.
  • Familiarity with GPU libraries and frameworks such as CUTLASS and Triton.
  • Experience with inter-GPU communication programming.
  • Open-source contributions related to GPU performance or machine-learning acceleration.
  • Research or conference presentations on GPU optimization, HPC, or numerical computing.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours.
  • Daily lunch and dinner, plus unlimited snacks and beverages.
  • Supportive and highly collaborative work environment.
  • Health check-up support and top-tier equipment and hardware support.
  • Competitive compensation, startup equity, and health insurance.
  • The posting describes a small, fast-moving team working on generative AI infrastructure.

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