Kodiak

Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer - Model Training

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2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$190k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design high-throughput data loading and streaming systems for multimodal camera, LiDAR, and radar data, including dataset formats, sharding, and prefetching.
  • Build and optimize distributed training infrastructure across multi-node GPU clusters using data, tensor, pipeline, FSDP, and ZeRO parallelism.
  • Maximize accelerator utilization through mixed-precision training, fused kernels, memory optimization, and communication/computation overlap.
  • Profile end-to-end training pipelines and eliminate storage, network, CPU preprocessing, and GPU-compute bottlenecks.
  • Develop scalable pipelines that convert petabytes of raw driving logs into streamable training datasets.
  • Partner with ML teams to scale new architectures from prototypes to reliable full-cluster training runs.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
  • At least 2–3 years of industry experience in ML systems or infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch DDP/FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron, NCCL, and distributed-training techniques.
  • Experience building high-performance large-scale training data pipelines using streaming formats such as WebDataset or MosaicML Streaming/MDS, with sharding and storage/network-aware loading.
  • Deep understanding of GPU performance, including mixed precision, memory hierarchy, kernel fusion, Nsight, PyTorch Profiler, NVLink, and InfiniBand.
  • Strong Python skills and proficiency with PyTorch internals.
  • C++/CUDA/Triton systems-level experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife, including infertility benefits.
  • Legal services, identity and fraud protection, hospital indemnity, accident, critical illness, disability, and life insurance.
  • Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave.
  • Mountain View, California office with dog-friendly facilities, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
  • Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula wellbeing benefits.
  • Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, referral bonuses, and patent bonuses.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates, subject to stated restrictions.
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