Staff GPU Performance / Kernel Engineer
Designworks Talent9 hours ago
Bellevue, WA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Profile, analyze, and optimize GPU kernels to improve latency, throughput, and overall utilization.
- Identify and eliminate data-plane bottlenecks affecting GPU performance across large-scale AI workloads.
- Tune performance-critical workloads across training and inference environments.
- Collaborate with AI infrastructure, machine learning, and platform engineering teams to optimize system behavior.
- Develop benchmarking methodologies and performance measurement practices across GPU infrastructure.
- Evaluate emerging GPU technologies, performance tools, and optimization techniques.
- Improve GPU efficiency, scalability, and reliability across the GPU fleet.
Requirements
- Strong experience developing and optimizing GPU kernels using CUDA, ROCm, or comparable GPU programming frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience improving GPU utilization, reducing latency, or increasing throughput for production AI workloads.
- Strong understanding of GPU architecture, memory hierarchy, parallel computing, and application-to-hardware execution paths.
- Experience profiling and debugging performance issues in complex AI or distributed computing environments.
- Ability to independently own technically complex problems and drive solutions.
- Strong systems programming and performance engineering mindset.
- Preferred: experience optimizing workloads across NVIDIA and AMD GPU platforms.
- Preferred: experience with GPU compiler technologies, runtime optimization, or low-level systems performance.
- Preferred: contributions to open-source GPU performance projects, compiler tooling, or AI systems optimization.
- Preferred: background in large-scale AI training, inference platforms, HPC environments, or cloud GPU infrastructure.
- Preferred: familiarity with Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, ROCm profiling tools, or similar technologies.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay for the Bellevue market, with certain roles eligible for merit increases, annual bonuses, and long-term incentives.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for U.S.-based employees.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Paid holidays per calendar year.
- Hybrid Bellevue, Washington arrangement with approximately three days per week in the office.
- Candidates elsewhere in the U.S. may apply if open to relocation.
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