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Member of Technical Staff - Compute Infrastructure

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5 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $440k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize massive GPU clusters for extreme-scale training and inference
  • Develop and tune low-level CUDA kernels using GeMM, Attention, CUTLASS, Tensor Cores, and Nsight
  • Work on Linux kernel scheduling, memory management, and resource isolation at cluster scale
  • Build custom container orchestration, virtualization layers using KVM and Firecracker, and distributed systems beyond standard Kubernetes
  • Profile, debug, and eliminate bottlenecks across GPU memory, networking fabric, filesystems, and multi-GPU operations
  • Create and maintain infrastructure-as-code, automation, and tools for reliable and efficient supercomputer operations
  • Collaborate with AI research teams to deliver production-grade performance and scalability

Requirements

  • Deep low-level systems programming experience with C, C++, or Rust
  • Experience building and operating high-performance exabyte-scale storage systems
  • Strong experience with large-scale GPU clusters or distributed compute infrastructure in production
  • Hands-on experience optimizing GPU kernels with CUTLASS, custom kernels, and Nsight profiling
  • Experience with Linux kernel internals, scheduling, virtualization, or large-scale orchestration
  • A track record of building or operating high-performance infrastructure for AI training or inference workloads
  • Ability to reason from first principles and optimize memory-bound and compute-bound workloads

Benefits

  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
  • Various discounts and perks

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1,001-5,000 employees

Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers

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