Software Engineer: ML Optimization
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)$260k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Software Engineer focused on ML optimization for training and on-robot inference stacks at Generalist, enabling step-function improvements in GPU performance and model efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Making GPUs go brrrrr
- Implementing ML, hardware, and software changes that lead to step-function gains
- Optimizing both the inference and training stacks
Qualifications
- Proficient and current with the latest ML techniques for training and inference optimizations in transformer and diffusion-based architectures
- Ability to optimize across CUDA kernels, ML architecture, frontend/backend bottlenecks, CPU bottlenecks, NVLink and communications, and software libraries (torch, numpy, Python)
Skills
Required:ML optimization for training and inferenceML frameworks and libraries
Nice to have:CUDA kernels
Benefits
- Offers Equity
Last updated Sep 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Generalist AI
Generalist is a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.
Generalist AI: a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.
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