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About the role
We are looking for an AI Performance Engineer to join the ASIC Performance team. You will design, implement, and tune high-performance attention kernels—and a broader set of foundational AI kernels—for new accelerator architectures. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of relevant industry or research experience in high-performance computing, AI kernel development, accelerator programming, compiler engineering, or a closely related field
- Strong knowledge of modern attention algorithms and their implementation tradeoffs, including the distinct performance characteristics of prefill and decode
- Strong understanding of architectures beyond conventional GPUs—such as NPUs, DSPs, TPUs, or custom ASICs—and the ability to reason about unfamiliar compute units, memory hierarchies, and execution models
- Experience with at least one heterogeneous programming model or kernel ecosystem such as CUDA, Triton, SYCL, OpenCL, HIP, or a vendor accelerator SDK
- Strong performance-analysis skills and proficiency with relevant profiling, tracing, benchmarking, and debugging tools
- Ability to read architecture manuals, compiler output, and low-level generated code, form hypotheses from data, and systematically close performance gaps
More about this role
At Modular, a Qualcomm company , we’re on a mission to revolutionize AI infrastructure by systematically rebuilding the AI software stack from the ground up. Our team, made up of industry leaders and experts, is building cutting-edge, modular infrastructure that simplifies AI development and deployment. By rethinking the complexities of AI systems, we’re empowering everyone to unlock AI’s full potential and tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
If you’re passionate about shaping the future of AI and creating tools that make a real difference in people’s lives, we want you on our team. You can read about our culture and careers to understand how we work and what we value.
We are looking for an AI Performance Engineer to join the ASIC Performance team. You will design, implement, and tune high-performance attention kernels—and a broader set of foundational AI kernels—for new accelerator architectures.
Attention is evolving quickly across models and hardware: grouped-query and multi-head attention, prefill and decode, paged KV caches, sliding-window and global attention, and new sparse or fused variants each create different compute, memory, and data-movement...
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