Founding GPU Kernel Engineer — Hand‑Tuned ML Kernels

San Francisco Tensor Company

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 285,000 - 315,000

Full time

14 days+

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Relocation assistance
Equity
Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

San Francisco Tensor Company is seeking a Founding GPU Kernel Engineer to enhance GPU performance for AI applications. You will optimize and write kernels while collaborating with compiler teams to improve efficiencies across architectures. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in GPU architecture and experience with profiling tools.

This position offers a salary range of $285,000 - $315,000 along with bonus, equity, and benefits, plus relocation assistance to our San Francisco office.

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in GPU architecture required.
  • Proven record of hand-writing GPU kernels essential.
  • Strong skills with low-level profiling tools are a must.

Responsibilities

  • Write and hand-optimize GPU kernels for ML workloads.
  • Profile microarchitectural performance issues.
  • Develop performance models for kernels across architectures.

Skills

GPU architecture
C++
CUDA
Low-level profiling tools
ML workloads optimization

Tools

Nsight Compute
Nsight Systems
ROCm/HIP

Job description

San Francisco Tensor Company is seeking a Founding GPU Kernel Engineer to enhance GPU performance for AI applications. You will optimize and write kernels while collaborating with compiler teams to improve efficiencies across architectures. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in GPU architecture and experience with profiling tools.

This position offers a salary range of $285,000 - $315,000 along with bonus, equity, and benefits, plus relocation assistance to our San Francisco office.

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