Research Engineer - AI Performance & Kernel Optimization
mid$21K – $42K
via Ashby
About this role
ZYPHRA IS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
THE ROLE:
As a Research Engineer - AI Performance & Kernel Optimization, you will improve and optimize the performance of our large-scale language model training and inference stacks. You will work closely with our pretraining and inference teams to identify bottlenecks, design and implement highly optimized kernels, and push the limits of throughput, latency, and hardware utilization across a range of accelerator platforms. This role is suited for someone who enjoys deep systems work, cares about performance at every level of the stack, and is excited to translate low-level optimizations into meaningful gains for frontier-scale AI systems.
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