Senior GPU Kernel & Performance Engineer

Designworks Talent LLC; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Designworks Talent LLC is seeking a Senior GPU Performance / Kernel Engineer to optimize the data plane powering large-scale AI workloads. Hybrid role in Bellevue, WA, with a focus on kernel tuning, latency reduction, and maximizing throughput across training and inference environments.

You will analyze workload behavior, identify bottlenecks, and develop tooling to operate AI systems efficiently at scale, collaborating with AI infra, ML, and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with GPU kernel development and performance optimization using CUDA/ROCm.
• Proven track record of improving GPU utilization, reducing latency, or increasing throughput for production AI workloads.
• Deep understanding of GPU architecture, memory hierarchy, and the data path from app to hardware.
• Experience profiling and debugging performance issues in complex AI or distributed environments.
• Ability to own technically complex problems and drive solutions in a fast-moving team.
• Strong systems programming and performance engineering mindset.

Responsibilities

• Profile, analyze, and optimize GPU kernels to improve latency, throughput, and utilization.
• Identify and eliminate data-plane bottlenecks affecting GPU performance at scale.
• Tune workloads across training and inference environments.
• Collaborate with AI infra, ML, and platform teams to optimize workload behavior.
• Develop benchmarking methodologies and performance measurement practices.
• Evaluate emerging GPU tech and tools as hardware evolves.
• Contribute to engineering practices improving GPU efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

Skills

CUDA

ROCm

GPU kernel development

Performance optimization

Profiling

Systems programming

Distributed AI workloads

Tools

Nsight Systems

Nsight Compute

ROCm profiling tools

GPU profiling tools

Job description

Designworks Talent LLC is seeking a Senior GPU Performance / Kernel Engineer to optimize the data plane powering large-scale AI workloads. Hybrid role in Bellevue, WA, with a focus on kernel tuning, latency reduction, and maximizing throughput across training and inference environments.

You will analyze workload behavior, identify bottlenecks, and develop tooling to operate AI systems efficiently at scale, collaborating with AI infra, ML, and platform teams.