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Staff AI Performance Engineer

Graphcore · Milpitas, California, United States · On-site

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About Graphcore

Graphcore has built a new type of processor for machine intelligence to accelerate machine learning and AI applications for a world of intelligent machines. Backed by Air Street.

About the role

Lead performance work that turns large-scale AI workloads into faster, more efficient systems. As a Staff AI Performance Engineer, you will analyze and optimize AI training and inference workloads across distributed systems. Your work will connect compute, memory, networking and software behavior. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

More about this role

Lead performance work that turns large-scale AI workloads into faster, more efficient systems.

As a Staff AI Performance Engineer, you will analyze and optimize AI training and inference workloads across distributed systems. Your work will connect compute, memory, networking and software behavior.

You will lead complex performance workstreams across hardware and software. You will find bottlenecks, validate improvements and turn performance evidence into practical engineering decisions.

You will build benchmarks, profile demanding workloads and develop C++ and Python tools for analysis and optimization. Your recommendations will help teams improve efficiency, scalability and reliability.

This role gives you broad technical scope across AI infrastructure at data center scale. It is based in Milpitas, California.

The team and culture

The System Engineering Performance team architects, evaluates and optimizes high-performance infrastructure for large-scale data center deployments. The team works across the computing stack to understand real system behavior.

Work moves through evidence, ownership and clear technical judgment. You will lead investigations, coordinate across teams and...

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