Staff Software Engineer - GenAI Performance and Kernel
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Job Description
<p>P-1285</p> <h3><strong>About This Role</strong></h3> <p>As a staff software engineer for GenAI Performance and Kernel, you will own the design, implementation, optimization, and correctness of the high-performance GPU kernels powering our GenAI inference stack. You will lead development of highly-tuned, low-level compute paths, manage trade-offs between hardware efficiency and generality, and mentor others in kernel-level performance engineering. You will work closely with ML researchers, systems engineers, and product teams to push the state-of-the-art in inference performance at scale.</p> <h3><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Lead the design, implementation, benchmarking, and maintenance of core compute kernels (e.g. attention, MLP, softmax, layernorm, memory management) optimized for various hardware backends (GPU, accelerators)</li> <li>Drive the performance roadmap for
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