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
About this job
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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