Sr. Software Engineer, Kernels/CUDA (C++)
xAI · Palo Alto, CA
Frontier labonsitesenior$220k–$357k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build one of the world's largest AI supercomputers from the ground up.
- Own the supercomputer and platform powering extreme-scale training and inference.
- Directly accelerate Grok's training speed and overall AI progress.
What they offer
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short & long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
Ideal candidate
A first-principles systems thinker who loves squeezing maximum performance from massive infrastructure and wants their work to directly accelerate frontier AI progress.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with low-level system programming in C/C++
- Deep low-level systems programming (C/C++/PTX/SASS)
- Strong experience with large-scale GPU clusters or distributed compute infrastructure at production scale
- Hands-on work with GPU kernel optimization (CUTLASS, custom kernels, Nsight profiling)
- Track record of building or running high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads (training or inference platforms)
- Ability to reason from first principles and optimize for both memory-bound and compute-bound scenarios
Lab profile
About xAI
Builds AI systems to understand the universe and advance human knowledge.
Known for
- Engineering excellence focus
- Large-scale data center operations
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