AI Performance Engineer

Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.

Sunnyvale, United States
About Applied Intuition

Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.

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About the Role

You will profile and optimize distributed training, batch inference, and multi-node scaling. You will develop performance models, reduce GPU idle time, improve cluster goodput, build benchmarking and observability tools, and work with engineers to solve large-scale data and compute problems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or an adjacent field
  • 1+ years of hands-on ML performance engineering experience
  • 5+ years of overall experience
  • Experience with distributed multi-node training at scale
  • Deep familiarity with GPU or accelerator performance concepts
  • Experience with high-throughput or batch inference systems
  • Fluency in Python and proficiency in C++ or another systems language
  • Understanding of machine learning foundations

Responsibilities

  • Profile and optimize distributed training end to end
  • Optimize large-scale offline and batch inference over sensor logs
  • Establish performance models and prioritize optimization opportunities
  • Improve multi-node scaling efficiency
  • Reduce GPU idle time and improve cluster goodput
  • Build benchmarking, observability, and regression-detection tooling
  • Collaborate with engineers to solve data and compute problems at scale

Benefits

  • Equity