PRF·0124

Senior Software Engineer - GPU Kernel Authoring & Optimization

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA

Compilers & RuntimesKernel & DriversNetworking & ProtocolsPerformance & ObservabilityVirtualization & ContainersC++

Summary

CoreWeave is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - GPU Kernel Authoring & Optimization in Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA. The role focuses on operating systems & kernel, compilers & runtimes, networking, virtualization & containers, graphics, gpu & compute, low-latency & performance.

Responsibilities as stated

  • You'll partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to turn kernel-level wins into end-to-end gains and meet strict P99 SLAs at scale.
  • Author, profile, and optimize CUDA kernels—GEMMs, attention, MoE routing, quantization, KV-cache, and fused epilogues—on the critical path of LLM inference.
  • Benchmark rigorously: build reproducible microbenchmarks and roofline analyses, and validate that kernel-level wins translate to end-to-end latency/throughput gains across model-serving stacks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, llm-d, SGLang).

Location, employment, and compensation

  • Location. Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
  • Employment. unknown
  • Compensation. Not stated on the source. NearMetal does not estimate compensation.
  • How to apply. On the company’s own posting. NearMetal does not accept applications.

Why this is filed as systems software

  • You'll partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to turn kernel-level wins into end-to-end gains and meet strict P99 SLAs at scale.
  • Author, profile, and optimize CUDA kernels—GEMMs, attention, MoE routing, quantization, KV-cache, and fused epilogues—on the critical path of LLM inference.
  • Benchmark rigorously: build reproducible microbenchmarks and roofline analyses, and validate that kernel-level wins translate to end-to-end latency/throughput gains across model-serving stacks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, llm-d, SGLang).

Source and corrections

This summary was written from the company’s own posting. NearMetal does not reproduce the full description and does not accept applications.

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