47 kernel jobs at 35 companies in American Canyon, CA

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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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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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AI Kernel Engineer Intern - Kernel Optimization
Burlingame, California, United States
$45-$60/hr OnsiteTemporary, Internship
Quadric
Quadric: Designing licensable processor IP for on-device AI inference.
MS student in CS/CE or related fields; proficient in C/C++/Python; experience in kernel implementation and optimization; experience in performance profiling.
C++, Python, ONNX, Profiling Tools
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Member of Technical Saff – OS Kernel
Walnut Creek, California, United States
$140k-$180k/yr HybridFull Time
Aptiv
AptivNYSE: APTV: Engineers electrical architectures and safety software for vehicles.
8+ YOE8+ years OS/kernel development experience, RTOS/VxWorks, C programming, device drivers/BSP experience, familiarity with assembly/C++/Python, CI/CD and safety-certification processes (DO-178C/ISO 26262) preferred.
VxWorks, C, Assembly, C++, Python, CI/CD
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Staff Software Engineer, Performance and Kernel, DeepMind
Mountain View or Zürich or New York City or San Francisco
$207k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Google
GoogleNASDAQ: GOOGL: Provides online search, advertising, cloud computing, and consumer electronics.
8+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent,8 years software development,5 years testing and product launches,5 years performance modeling and Linux Kernel development,3 years software design.
Linux Kernel
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Camera Systems Software Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
$100k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Skild AI: Develops autonomous robotic software platforms.
5+ YOE5+ years embedded camera systems experience; strong C/C++; Linux; camera hardware bring-up; kernel/drivers; real-time pipelines.
C/C++, Linux, Kernel debugging, MIPI CSI-2, I2C, V4L2, GMSL, FPD-Link, device-tree, timing/synchronization
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Host Systems Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$266k-$445k/yr HybridFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
Experienced systems software engineer with strong C/C++ skills, Python, Linux and kernel experience; familiarity with RDMA, PCIe, DMA, NICs, platform bring-up, debugging, and performance optimization.
C, C++, Python, Linux, Linux kernel, RDMA, RoCE, ibverbs, PCIe, DMA, SR-IOV, IOMMU, dma-buf, Rust
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Member of Technical Staff - Low Level & Kernels Capabilities
San Francisco or Toronto or Seattle
$200k-$350k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Preference Model
Preference Model: Building reinforcement learning environments to train frontier AI models.
Experienced low-level systems engineer fluent in C/C++/CUDA and Python, kernel and kernel-optimization experience, hardware-aware coding, familiarity with LLMs, and ability to design robust, ungameable RL environments.
C, C++, CUDA, Python, assembly, cuBLAS, FFTW, OpenSSL, FPGA, RISC-V, SIMD, AVX, TPU, RTL, HDL, HLS, MLIR, LLVM, Mojo, Triton, gem5, Lean, Coq, SMT
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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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Senior Technical Staff Engineer - Software
San Jose or Santa Rosa
$91k-$232k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Microchip Technology
Microchip TechnologyNasdaq: MCHP: Manufacturer of microcontrollers, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
15+ YOE15+ years developing embedded platform software; strong Linux kernel and driver experience, U-Boot and bootloader work, ARM board bring-up, networking protocols, proficient in C and shell scripting, strong debugging skills.
embedded Linux, Pre-loader, U-Boot, Linux kernel, GDB, Lauterbach, Yocto, C, shell scripts
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Staff Production Engineer, Compute
San Francisco, California, United States
$209k-$253k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Crusoe
Crusoe: Provides energy-efficient cloud infrastructure powered by stranded and renewable energy.
8+ YOE8+ years in compute SRE or Linux system engineering; deep Linux kernel and virtualization knowledge; experience with KVM/QEMU/Xen/VMware; Go/C/Rust proficiency; system-level debugging and CI/CD for bare-metal/cloud.
KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware, Go, C, Rust, kdump, kexec, Linux kernel, TPU, BlueField-3, NVIDIA CX6/7, CI/CD
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Senior Systems Engineer, CKS Performance
Livingston or New York City or Sunnyvale or Bellevue or San Francisco
$182k-$242k/yr OnsiteFull Time
CoreWeave
CoreWeaveNASDAQ: CRWV: Cloud platform providing GPU-accelerated infrastructure for AI workloads.
5+ YOE5+ years Linux kernel or systems engineering experience; deep kernel internals (cgroups, namespaces, scheduler, memory); kernel crash debugging; strong C skills; experience with container runtimes and Kubernetes; upstreaming patches.
crash, gdb, kdump, containerd, runc, kubelet, CRI, eBPF, C
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Lead Embedded Linux Engineer - Intercom
San Mateo, California, United States
$210k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
10+ YOEBS or graduate degree in CS/Math/Engineering/Science, 10+ years Linux development, strong C/C++, Yocto, Bash, Linux device driver/kernel experience, familiarity with Secure Boot, Go/Python, WebRTC, distributed systems; must work onsite 5 days/week and travel internationally ~2x/year.
Linux, Linux kernel, Linux device drivers, C, C++, Bash, Yocto, Secure Boot, Go, Python, WebRTC, HTTP
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Member of Technical Staff, Kernels
San Francisco, California, United States
$350k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Mirendil
Mirendil: Developing frontier artificial intelligence models to accelerate scientific research.
Design and optimize performant ML kernels, reduce memory bandwidth bottlenecks, enable low-precision formats, and contribute to compiler/runtime stacks; deep hardware-software expertise required.
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Software Engineer - Operating Systems
San Carlos, California, United States
$200k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
1X
1X: Manufacturing safe, general-purpose humanoid robots for home and work.
5+ YOE5+ years shipping embedded Linux systems with BSP, kernel and distribution ownership; production device driver development; Yocto or Buildroot experience; kernel-level debugging and tracing expertise.
Yocto, Buildroot, Linux, PREEMPT_RT, CI/CD, kernel tracing tools, serial consoles
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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
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Wafer
Wafer: AI agents that automatically optimize GPU kernels for performance.
Experience writing CUDA/HIP/Triton kernels, optimizing serving stacks, and deploying heterogeneous inference clusters; strong problem-solving and communication skills.
CUDA, HIP, Triton, NVIDIA, AMD, TPU, Trainium, D-Matrix
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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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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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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$204k-$284k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fluidstack
Fluidstack: Provides high-performance cloud GPU infrastructure for AI development.
Experience building production infrastructure automation in Go or Python, bare-metal provisioning, deep Linux/kernel/network debugging, and automating provisioning and lifecycle management for GPU fleets.
Go, Python, Kubernetes, IPMI, Redfish, Linux