PRF · 25 roles from 15 companies

Performance Engineer Jobs

Profiling, tracing, latency and throughput work, GPU and accelerator kernel authoring, compiler-adjacent tuning, and measuring what the machine actually does.

Kernel & Drivers Compilers & Runtimes Databases & Query Engines Storage & Filesystems Networking & Protocols Virtualization & Containers Embedded & Firmware Performance & Observability Rust C C++Zig Go Remote

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Companies15

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Scope. Profiling, tracing, latency and throughput work, GPU and accelerator kernel authoring, compiler-adjacent tuning, and measuring what the machine actually does.

Not here. Product analytics and application monitoring are out of scope; the tracing subsystem inside a kernel is filed under kernel.

Languages named on these postings. C++ (8), Rust (4), Assembly (1), C (1), Go (1).

Hiring most into this area. OpenAI (7), CoreWeave (3), Baseten (2), Supabase (2), Anthropic (1).

25 rolessorted by last check

Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning

Supabase · Remote

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Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

Supabase · Remote

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Member of Technical Staff, Training Performance Engineer

Cohere · London

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Member of Technical Staff - ML Performance

Modal · New York

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Performance Engineer

Oxide Computer Company · Remote · Rust, C · $275,000 USD

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Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

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Software Engineer - GPU Kernels

Baseten · San Francisco · C++, Assembly

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Software Engineer - Model Performance

Baseten · San Francisco · C++

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Senior Performance Engineer, Inference

Cerebras Systems · Headquarters/Sunnyvale Office

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Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

ClickHouse · Singapore · C++

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Member of Technical Staff (Performance Engineering)

Cockroach Labs · New York, NY

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GPU Performance Engineer

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA

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HPC Performance Engineer

CoreWeave · New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA · Go

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Senior Software Engineer - GPU Kernel Authoring & Optimization

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA · C++

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Senior Performance Engineer

Crusoe · San Francisco, CA - US · Rust, C++

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Member of Technical Staff, Performance Optimization

Fireworks AI · San Mateo

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Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Training Performance Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco · Rust, C++

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Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Workload Porting & Performance Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Software Engineer, Inference - Performance Optimization

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Performance & Systems Engineer, Codex

OpenAI · San Francisco

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System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco · Rust, C++

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Senior Wireless Systems Performance Engineer

Skydio · San Mateo, California, United States

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Sr. Engineer, Kernel Development and Optimization

Tenstorrent · Belgrade, Serbia · C++

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Adjacent

112 more roles touch performance & observability without being filed under it

Every role is filed under one sub-domain — the one its own title says it is. These reference performance & observability as secondary work.

Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

Cursor · New York

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Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure

Cohere · San Francisco · C++, Go

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Member of Technical Staff - Systems

Modal · New York · Rust

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Member of Technical Staff - Systems

Modal · Stockholm · Rust

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Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference

Modal · New York

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