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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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Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling
San Francisco, California, United States
$266k-$445k/yr HybridFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
Systems/tooling engineering, kernel development, performance optimization, AI-assisted workflows, hardware-software co-design.
Kernel, Performance tooling, Observability, Developer tooling, C/C++, GPU/accelerator
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Kernel
Atlanta or Boston or Chicago or Denver or Los Angeles or New York City or San Francisco or Austin
$172k-$190k/yr RemoteFull Time
Flock Safety
Flock Safety: Sells AI-powered cameras and software for public safety surveillance.
8+ YOE8+ years experience in embedded/kernel engineering, mastery of C/C++, Linux/Android kernel and chipset bring-up, bootloader and driver development, firmware debugging, and experience with large fleets of connected devices.
Claude, Copilot, Codex, Gerrit, Git, Kotlin, Android, Android Build System, Linux, C, C++, XBL, ABL, ADSP
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Senior Firmware Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$176k-$228k/yr HybridFull Time
Hayden AI
Hayden AI: Mobile vision AI systems for automated traffic enforcement.
5+ YOE5+ years firmware development, strong C, Linux kernel/driver experience, ARM64 embedded, BSPs, kernel/debugging, camera subsystems (V4L2) preferred.
C, Linux kernel, Device drivers, ARM64, V4L2, GStreamer, Video pipelines
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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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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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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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Senior Technical Recruiter
San Francisco, California, United States
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Gimlet Labs
Gimlet Labs: Infrastructure for scaling and deploying high-performance agentic AI workloads.
5+ YOE5+ years in technical recruiting; direct experience hiring kernel, compiler, or low-level systems roles; strong sourcing and closing skills.
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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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Principal Software Engineer - Dataplane & Edge Infrastructure
Seattle or San Francisco
$231k-$323k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Blue Origin: Develops reusable rockets and systems for human spaceflight.
10+ YOE10+ years in software engineering; high-performance networking; C/C++; DPDK/VPP; IPv4/IPv6, BGP, MPLS; Linux kernel networking; leadership.
DPDK, VPP, C++, C, IPv4, IPv6, BGP, MPLS, VXLAN, Segment Routing, Linux, eBPF/XDP
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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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Senior Systems Engineer, Watch Software
Boulder or Cupertino or San Diego or Denver or San Francisco or San Diego
OnsiteFull Time
Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience; strong OS, performance and memory management; kernel/Darwin experience; power and performance analysis; solid CS fundamentals; excellent communication.
OS development, Performance analysis, Memory profiling, Kernel / Darwin
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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
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Windows Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
RemoteFull Time
Upwind Security
Upwind Security: Provides a runtime-first cloud security platform for infrastructure protection.
3+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related, 3+ years systems programming (C/C++/C#), Windows kernel driver and Windows security module experience, familiarity with Windows internals, networking, and file systems.
Go, Kubernetes, Docker, eBPF, C, C++, C#, WMI, HLK, windbg, Windows Performance Analyzer, AWS, GCP, Azure
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