Member of Technical Staff — Inference-Kernel, Compiler & Communication

RadixArk; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

RadixArk is seeking a Member of Technical Staff — Kernel / Compiler / Communication to push the limits of performance for frontier AI systems. You will work at the lowest layers of the stack—kernels, runtimes, compilers, and communication libraries—to unlock maximum efficiency from modern accelerators and interconnects.

This deeply technical role involves solving performance challenges across thousands of GPUs, shaping the performance envelope of next-generation AI systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems, compiler, or performance engineering
• Strong expertise in CUDA or accelerator programming
• Deep understanding of GPU architecture and memory hierarchy
• Experience writing or optimizing high-performance kernels
• Strong background in compilers, runtimes, or code generation
• Experience with distributed communication libraries (NCCL, MPI, RCCL, etc.)
• Solid knowledge of networking and interconnect technologies
• Proficiency in C++ and Python
• Strong debugging and profiling skills at system level

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance kernels for AI workloads
• Optimize compiler and runtime stacks for ML systems
• Improve communication efficiency across large GPU clusters
• Reduce latency and increase throughput for distributed workloads
• Profile and eliminate system bottlenecks across the stack
• Collaborate with training and inference teams on performance optimization
• Develop tooling for profiling and performance analysis
• Contribute to long-term architecture for performance-critical systems
• Push the limits of hardware–software co-design

Skills

CUDA / accelerator programming

GPU architecture

Kernels optimization

Compilers / runtimes / code generation

C++ & Python

System-level debugging & profiling

Distributed communication libraries

Tools

NCCL

MPI

RCCL

NVLink

InfiniBand

MLIR

Triton

TVM

XLA

Job description

About the Role

RadixArk is seeking aMember of Technical Staff — Kernel / Compiler / Communicationto push the limits of performance for frontier AI systems.

You will work at the lowest layers of the stack — kernels, runtimes, compilers, and communication libraries — to unlock maximum efficiency from modern accelerators and interconnects.

This role is critical to scaling training and inference across thousands of GPUs, where microseconds and memory bandwidth matter. Your work will directly shape the performance envelope of next-generation AI systems.

This is a deeply technical role for engineers who enjoy working close to hardware and solving performance problems that most engineers never encounter.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems, compiler, or performance engineering
• Strong expertise in CUDA or accelerator programming
• Deep understanding of GPU architecture and memory hierarchy
• Experience writing or optimizing high-performance kernels
• Strong background in compilers, runtimes, or code generation
• Experience with distributed communication libraries (NCCL, MPI, RCCL, etc.)
• Solid knowledge of networking and interconnect technologies
• Proficiency in C++ and Python
• Strong debugging and profiling skills at system level

Strong Plus

• Experience with Triton, TVM, XLA, or MLIR
• Experience building compiler passes or IR transformations
• Familiarity with NVLink, InfiniBand, or RDMA
• Experience optimizing collective communication at scale
• Background in HPC or performance-critical systems
• Contributions to kernel/compiler/ML systems open source
• Experience scaling workloads to 1000+ GPUs
• Experience with mixed-precision or quantized kernels

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance kernels for AI workloads
• Optimize compiler and runtime stacks for ML systems
• Improve communication efficiency across large GPU clusters
• Reduce latency and increase throughput for distributed workloads
• Profile and eliminate system bottlenecks across the stack
• Collaborate with training and inference teams on performance optimization
• Develop tooling for profiling and performance analysis
• Contribute to long-term architecture for performance-critical systems
• Push the limits of hardware–software co-design

About RadixArk

RadixArk is an infrastructure-first company built by engineers who've shipped production AI systems, created SGLang (30K+ GitHub stars, the fastest open LLM serving engine), and developed Miles (our large-scale RL framework). Founded by AI infrastructure veterans from xAI and NVIDIA, we're on a mission to democratize frontier-level AI infrastructure by building world-class open systems for inference and training. Our team has optimized kernels serving billions of tokens daily, designed distributed training systems coordinating 10,000+ GPUs, and contributed to infrastructure that powers leading AI companies and research labs.

Compensation

Depending on background, skills, and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $400,000 USD + equity.

Equal Opportunity

RadixArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.