Senior Software Engineer - AI Triton Kernels

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• Design, research, implement, and rigorously optimize high-performance matmul, attention (flash, paged, grouped-query), MoE, and fully fused transformer kernels using Triton, targeting large-scale LLM and multimodal workloads
• Own and productionize critical Triton/Gluon kernels within vLLM and SGL (e.g., paged attention, extend attention, MoE, quantized kernels, etc), ensuring correctness, scalability, and peak throughput
• Partner closely with compiler engineers to develop and maintain the Triton AMD backend across ROCm and the LLVM AMDGPU stack, targeting CDNA and next-generation architectures
• Drive deep kernel-level optimizations across the AMD memory hierarchy (LDS, L2, HBM), wavefront execution (wave32/wave64), vectorization, MFMA utilization, occupancy tuning, and instruction scheduling to maximize hardware efficiency
• Perform rigorous profiling and microbenchmarking led optimization on AMD Instinct GPUs using hardware counters and tracing tools; root-cause bottlenecks in memory bandwidth, latency hiding, synchronization, and register pressure
• Debug and resolve performance and correctness issues end-to-end across PyTorch, vLLM/SGL runtimes, Triton IR/MLIR, ROCm runtime, and the LLVM AMDGPU backend
• Contribute to open-source Triton, LLVM, and ROCm ecosystems

• 3+ years of experience in GPU kernel development, compiler backends, or performance engineering focused on AI/ML workloads
• Strong hands-on expertise with Triton, including writing custom matmul, attention, and fused transformer kernels and understanding Triton IR lowering to GPU backends
• Deep understanding of modern GPU architectures (wavefront execution, memory hierarchy, scheduling, occupancy)
• Meaningful contributions to open-source projects such as Triton, Torch, vLLM, SGLang, IREE, MLIR, LLVM, or ROCm, with a strong collaborative and upstream-first engineering mindset

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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