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Sr. Software Engineer, Kernels/CUDA (C++)

xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA · Palo Alto, CA

Frontier labonsiteSenior$200k–$375k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers from the ground up.
  • Own the supercomputer and platform layer powering extreme-scale training.
  • Accelerate AI progress by making training faster and more reliable.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance

Ideal candidate

Low-level systems thinker with deep experience who reasons from first principles and thrives optimizing massive-scale infrastructure to accelerate real 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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