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Palo Alto, California, United States
Onsite
RadixArk is seeking a Member of Technical Staff — Kernel / Compiler / Communication to push the limits of performance for frontier AI systems.
You will work at the lowest layers of the stack — kernels, runtimes, compilers, and communication libraries — to unlock maximum efficiency from modern accelerators and interconnects.
This role is critical to scaling training and inference across thousands of GPUs, where microseconds and memory bandwidth matter. Your work will directly shape the performance envelope of next-generation AI systems.
This is a deeply technical role for engineers who enjoy working close to hardware and solving performance problems that most engineers never encounter.
5+ years of experience in systems, compiler, or performance engineering
Strong expertise in CUDA or accelerator programming
Deep understanding of GPU architecture and memory hierarchy
Experience writing or optimizing high-performance kernels
Strong background in compilers, runtimes, or code generation
Experience with distributed communication libraries (NCCL, MPI, RCCL, etc.)
Solid knowledge of networking and interconnect technologies
Proficiency in C++ and Python
Strong debugging and profiling skills at system level
Experience with Triton, TVM, XLA, or MLIR
Experience building compiler passes or IR transformations
Familiarity with NVLink, InfiniBand, or RDMA
Experience optimizing collective communication at scale
Background in HPC or performance-critical systems
Contributions to kernel/compiler/ML systems open source
Experience scaling workloads to 1000+ GPUs
Experience with mixed-precision or quantized kernels
Design and implement high-performance kernels for AI workloads
Optimize compiler and runtime stacks for ML systems
Improve communication efficiency across large GPU clusters
Reduce latency and increase throughput for distributed workloads
Profile and eliminate system bottlenecks across the stack
Collaborate with training and inference teams on performance optimization
Develop tooling for profiling and performance analysis
Contribute to long-term architecture for performance-critical systems
Push the limits of hardware–software co-design
RadixArk is an infrastructure-first company built by engineers who've shipped production AI systems, created SGLang (30K+ GitHub stars, the fastest open LLM serving engine), and developed Miles (our large-scale RL framework). Founded by AI infrastructure veterans from xAI and NVIDIA, we're on a mission to democratize frontier-level AI infrastructure by building world-class open systems for inference and training. Our team has optimized kernels serving billions of tokens daily, designed distributed training systems coordinating 10,000+ GPUs, and contributed to infrastructure that powers leading AI companies and research labs.
Depending on background, skills, and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $400,000 USD + equity.
RadixArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.
