Wayve

Staff ML Performance Engineer (Compiler)

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London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Identify, implement, and validate optimizations in ML compilers, runtimes, and kernels, including operator fusion, scheduling, quantization-aware performance, and custom kernels.
  • Profile the full inference stack to locate bottlenecks and deliver measurable improvements in latency, memory, bandwidth, power, thermal performance, or cost.
  • Build benchmarking and regression-testing systems across models, devices, and software releases.
  • Develop and optimize ML inference for NVIDIA Orin/Thor, Qualcomm, and other target platforms.
  • Collaborate with model developers on architecture and training/deployment decisions affecting on-device performance.
  • Contribute to technical roadmaps and tooling and raise performance-engineering standards across the team.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and potentially mentor others while driving technical direction.

Requirements

  • Proven experience improving performance in production systems subject to tight resource or performance constraints.
  • Strong proficiency with at least one relevant stack or toolchain, such as TensorRT, CUDA, Qualcomm QNN, Triton, OpenCL, MLIR, or ONNX.
  • Ability to work across abstraction levels from high-level model behavior to low-level kernel and runtime execution.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including debugging, profiling, testing, and maintainable code.
  • Clear communication and collaboration skills for aligning stakeholders on performance trade-offs and priorities.
  • Experience with compute graph scheduling and execution across multiple targets is desirable.
  • Experience deploying ML models to embedded or edge devices, benchmarking on real devices, and handling system-level constraints is desirable.
  • Experience with NVIDIA or Qualcomm SoCs and performance tooling is desirable.
  • Python and C++ proficiency is desirable.
  • Experience mentoring others or driving technical direction in a small, fast-moving team is desirable.
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