Sr. Software Engineer, Kernels/CUDA (C++)
xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA · Palo Alto, CA
Frontier labonsiteSenior$200k–$375k
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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