Remote AI Performance Engineer - Throughput & Optimization

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an AI Performance Optimization Engineer to maximize throughput, minimize latency, and reduce cost across training and inference workloads for large neural networks. The role spans from low-level kernel optimization to distributed system tuning, requiring deep GPU architecture knowledge and model parallelism.

The ideal candidate has production AI experience, strong instrumentation, and a track record of shipping measurable performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Six+ years of experience in performance engineering, ML systems, or HPC.
• Strong proficiency in Python and C++.
• Hands-on experience optimizing deep learning workloads on modern GPUs.

Responsibilities

• Profile and optimize end-to-end AI training and inference pipelines for throughput, latency, and cost.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across data loading, model compute, communication, and memory.
• Implement and tune quantization, sparsity, and pruning strategies to reduce model footprint and accelerate inference.
• Optimize distributed training using tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism, FSDP, and ZeRO-style sharding.
• Tune attention implementations using FlashAttention, paged attention, and related techniques.
• Implement KV cache optimization, continuous batching, and speculative decoding for LLM serving.
• Drive compiler-level optimizations using Triton, XLA, TorchInductor, or TVM, working with the broader ML framework community to land improvements that translate into measurable end-to-end performance gains.
• Optimize data pipelines, sharding strategies, and storage access patterns for high-throughput training.
• Build and maintain rigorous benchmark suites and regression frameworks across workloads.
• Collaborate with ML and platform engineering teams to embed best practices in standard pipelines.
• Drive cost-efficiency improvements through model architecture, hardware selection, and scheduling strategies.
• Evaluate new hardware and software offerings, and advise on adoption.
• Document performance tuning playbooks and share findings broadly across engineering teams.
• Stay current with AI systems research and translate advances into production improvements.

Skills

Python

C++

GPU optimization

Distributed training

Profiling tools

Memory management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE

Tools

Triton

XLA

TorchInductor

TVM

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an AI Performance Optimization Engineer to maximize throughput, minimize latency, and reduce cost across training and inference workloads for large neural networks. The role spans from low-level kernel optimization to distributed system tuning, requiring deep GPU architecture knowledge and model parallelism.

The ideal candidate has production AI experience, strong instrumentation, and a track record of shipping measurable performance improvements.