10 gpu kernel development engineer jobs at 9 companies in Vallejo, CA

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GPU Kernel Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$180k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI: Building reliable, general frontier AI models for automation.
Deep CUDA/GPU kernel expertise, experience building and optimizing training and inference kernels, LLM training experience, profiling and eliminating performance bottlenecks.
CUDA, CuTe DSL
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KERNEL ENGINEER
San Francisco, California, United States
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MakerMaker
MakerMaker: Autonomous research agents for recursive self-improvement
4+ YOE4+ years GPU kernel development; hardware-level fluency; profiling; Python/C++ reading; track record of kernel-level optimizations; strong systems know-how.
CUDA, ROCm, Triton, Nsight, ncu, Python, C++, Memory bandwidth, Warp scheduling
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Research Scientist / Engineer – Performance Optimization
Redwood City, California, United States
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Luma AI
Luma AI: Develops multimodal AI for video generation and creative production.
Expert GPU/CPU/accelerator optimization with Triton/CUDA, strong PyTorch and kernel development, profiling tools experience, deep transformer knowledge, and distributed deployment skills.
Triton, CUDA, PyTorch, NVIDIA Nsight, torch profiler, torch.compile, TensorRT, ONNX, XLA
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Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Linux
San Francisco, California, United States
$180k-$250k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Nimble
Nimble: Building autonomous robotic systems for supply chain fulfillment.
3+ YOE3+ years professional software engineering experience; proficiency in Rust, C, or C++; Linux kernel development, board bring-up, bootloader/uboot/EDK2/UEFI experience, networking knowledge, and strong communication and mentoring skills.
Rust, C, C++, Linux kernel, uboot, EDK2, UEFI, CUDA, Nvidia Jeston Platform
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Principal Systems Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$260k-$340k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Crusoe
Crusoe: Provides energy-efficient cloud infrastructure powered by stranded and renewable energy.
12+ YOE12+ years designing core infrastructure at hyperscale or in HPC, with Linux kernel, virtualization, high-performance networking, GPU optimization, R&D leadership, and a bachelor's or master's degree in a related field.
Linux kernel, KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, RoCE v2, InfiniBand, RDMA, SR-IOV, Kubernetes, Slurm, NVIDIA, AMD, Linux, IETF RFCs
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Member of Technical Staff - Research Engineer
San Francisco or Freiburg im Breisgau
$180k-$290k/yr HybridFull Time
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs: Develops generative AI models for image and video creation.
Deep experience with large-scale training systems, PyTorch, distributed training, GPU profiling and performance, low-precision/quantization work, kernel-level optimizations, and debugging distributed training failures.
PyTorch, Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, torch profiler, NCCL, CUDA, Triton, CuTe, CUTLASS
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Founding Software Engineer, Perception
San Francisco, California, United States
$160k-$220k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Kovari
Kovari: Building general-purpose robots for hospitality and physical industries.
Design and deploy perception policies for deployed robots; multimodal data; edge inference optimization; CUDA kernel optimization; sim-to-real experience.
CUDA, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, TVM, C++, Python
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Member of Technical Staff, Inference
San Francisco, California, United States
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Radical Numerics
Radical Numerics: Building general biological intelligence models for scientific discovery.
Deep expertise in large-model inference, GPU performance engineering, kernel development (CUDA/Triton), Python and PyTorch, distributed systems, and production model deployment.
CUDA, Triton, Python, PyTorch, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, DeepSpeed
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Founding Software Engineer, Robot Learning
San Francisco, California, United States
$160k-$220k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Kovari
Kovari: Building general-purpose robots for hospitality and physical industries.
Experience deploying robot policies on hardware; sim-to-real or real robot data; multimodal inputs; edge inference optimization; CUDA kernel optimization; conference contributions preferred.
CUDA, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, TVM
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Embedded Linux Operating Systems
Foster City, California, United States
$235k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
Zoox
ZooxNASDAQ: AMZN: Developing autonomous robotaxis for urban ride-hailing services.
8+ YOE8+ years delivering production systems with 2+ years building custom Embedded Linux OS; deep Linux, Yocto, U-Boot, device driver and kernel knowledge; proficiency in C/C++/Rust and scripting (bash, Python).
Yocto, U-Boot, systemd, chroot, cgroups, Linux namespaces, C, C++, Rust, Bash, Python, Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia Thor/Orin, CUDA, TRT