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Software Engineer III, Performance

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Sunnyvale, CA, USA$147k - $210kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Software Engineer III role focused on performance optimization for large-scale systems and ML-related workloads, with emphasis on tracking AI models, algorithmic optimizations, and collaboration across hardware/software co-design.

Responsibilities

  • Track the AI market, including the latest open-source models, frameworks, and research breakthroughs to identify SOTA algorithmic optimization opportunities.
  • Identify and validate SOTA algorithmic optimizations (e.g., quantization, mxfp4) through white-glove projects for key internal customers.
  • Drive end-to-end impact by transitioning validated algorithms and recipes to the Frontier Model Performance (manual optimization) and Automation teams, ensuring streamlined scaling.
  • Collaborate on hardware/software co-design to guide future TPU architecture (e.g., nvfp4) and product capabilities.
  • Develop custom kernels (Pallas) for new algorithmic efficiency techniques, and put them into production for 3P/OSS and 1P models.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 2 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
  • 2 years of experience with computer architecture, performance analysis, and performance modeling.

Skills

Required:Software developmentPerformance analysisComputer architecture
Nice to have:ML models and systemsHardware-software co-designData structures and algorithms
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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