Staff Software Engineer - GenAI Performance and Kernel

Databricks · San Francisco, California

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Company
Databricks
Location
San Francisco, California
Salary
$190,900 — $232,800
Posted
October 8, 2025

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P-1285 About This Role As a staff software engineer for GenAI Performance and Kernel, you will own the design, implementation, optimization, and correctness of the high-performance GPU kernels powering our GenAI inference stack. You will lead development of highly-tuned, low-level compute paths, manage trade-offs between hardware efficiency and generality, and mentor others in kernel-level performance engineering. You will work closely with ML researchers, systems engineers, and product teams to push the state-of-the-art in inference performance at scale. What You Will Do Lead the design, implementation, benchmarking, and maintenance of core compute kernels (e.g.

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