AI Systems Performance Specialist

Bright Vision Technologies; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced AI Systems Performance Specialist with 10+ years of experience in AI infrastructure, machine learning systems, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and performance engineering. The ideal candidate will optimize AI training and inference workloads for maximum performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

This role requires deep expertise in GPU optimization, distributed training, Large Language Model (LLM) inference, Python,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in performance engineering or AI infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in GPU-accelerated workloads, CUDA, distributed training and modern DL libraries.
• Expert-level programming in Python and C++.
• Experience profiling with Nsight, PyTorch Profiler, TensorBoard or similar tools.
• Experience deploying AI workloads on AWS/Azure/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Optimize AI training and inference pipelines for maximum throughput and low latency.
• Improve GPU utilization, memory management and multi-GPU performance across production workloads.
• Apply optimization techniques including quantization, pruning, mixed precision, batching and model parallelism.
• Profile applications and identify bottlenecks across compute, memory, networking, and storage.
• Lead performance optimization initiatives and mentor engineering teams.

Skills

Python

C++

GPU optimization

Distributed computing

Performance engineering

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related technical discipline

Tools

CUDA

NCCL

DeepSpeed

PyTorch

TensorRT

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title

AI Systems Performance SpecialistLocation: 100% Remote (Continental United States)Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2Salary Range: $130,000-$180,000 AnnuallyExperience Required: 10+ YearsSponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced AI Systems Performance Specialist with 10+ years of experience in AI infrastructure, machine learning systems, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and performance engineering. The ideal candidate will optimize AI training and inference workloads for maximum performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. This role requires deep expertise in GPU optimization, distributed training, Large Language Model (LLM) inference, Python, C++, CUDA, and production AI systems , along with the ability to lead performance optimization initiatives across enterprise-scale AI platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Optimize AI training and inference pipelines for maximum throughput, low latency, scalability, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Analyze and improve GPU utilization, memory management, kernel execution, and multi-GPU performance across production AI workloads.
• Design and implement optimization techniques including quantization, pruning, mixed precision, batching, caching, speculative decoding, and model parallelism.
• Profile AI applications using industry-standard performance analysis tools and identify bottlenecks across compute, memory, networking, and storage.
• Optimize distributed training and inference using NCCL, DeepSpeed, PyTorch Distributed, Ray, MPI, or similar distributed computing frameworks.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, ML engineers, platform engineers, and infrastructure teams to improve model performance and production reliability.
• Build automated benchmarking frameworks, performance dashboards, monitoring solutions, and regression testing pipelines.
• Evaluate emerging AI hardware, GPU architectures, inference frameworks, and optimization technologies to improve enterprise AI capabilities.
• Drive AI infrastructure cost optimization through efficient resource utilization, cloud optimization, and FinOps best practices.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership on AI systems architecture, GPU optimization, and performance engineering.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of professional experience in performance engineering, AI infrastructure, machine learning systems, High-Performance Computing (HPC), or distributed computing.
• Expert-level programming skills in Python and C++.
• Extensive experience optimizing GPU-accelerated AI workloads using CUDA , distributed training frameworks, and modern deep learning libraries.
• Strong knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), deep learning frameworks, model serving, and production AI inference.
• Hands-on experience with profiling tools such as NVIDIA Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, PyTorch Profiler, TensorBoard, or similar performance analysis tools.
• Experience deploying and optimizing AI workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, storage optimization, and AI infrastructure architecture.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience optimizing production-scale LLM inference and serving large foundation models.
• Hands-on experience with vLLM , TensorRT-LLM , DeepSpeed , Triton Inference Server , CUTLASS , FasterTransformer , or similar AI optimization frameworks.
• Knowledge of model compression, KV cache optimization, speculative decoding, and advanced inference optimization techniques.
• Experience implementing FinOps strategies for AI infrastructure cost optimization and resource management.
• Contributions to AI systems research, open-source AI infrastructure projects, patents, or technical publications.
• Familiarity with emerging AI accelerator technologies, including AMD ROCm , Intel oneAPI , or custom AI hardware.

Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) StatementBright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.