Senior Distributed Systems Engineer for AI Compute

Mirendil Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 300,000 - 400,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Mirendil Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer in San Francisco to locate bottlenecks and optimize how compute is utilized. You will influence AI workload design, system co-design, and data movement across machines to maximize goodput while ensuring correctness under load and failure.

The role emphasizes performance engineering for heterogeneous CPU and accelerator workloads. The company offers a base salary of $300,000–$400,000 with a meaningful equity grant and competitive benefits, reflecting

Responsibilities

  • AI workload and system co-design - rethink the AI application, execution, and hardware choices together to improve performance across the stack
  • Performance engineering - profile across the stack, find where time and resources go, and fix what matters
  • Reliable distributed systems - design how work and data move across machines, balancing parallelism, communication, and correctness under load and failure
  • Heterogeneous compute and workloads - make large-scale mixes of sandboxes, agent harnesses, training, and inference run efficiently together across CPUs and accelerators

Job description

Mirendil Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer in San Francisco to locate bottlenecks and optimize how compute is utilized. You will influence AI workload design, system co-design, and data movement across machines to maximize goodput while ensuring correctness under load and failure.

The role emphasizes performance engineering for heterogeneous CPU and accelerator workloads. The company offers a base salary of $300,000–$400,000 with a meaningful equity grant and competitive benefits, reflecting

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