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Founding Kernel Engineer

Luminal · San Francisco · On-site

USD 150,000–250,000 / year

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Company
Luminal
Location
San Francisco
Work mode
On-site
Open to applicants from
On-site/hybrid: local candidates
Level
Not specified
Employment
Full-time
Field
Software Engineering / Embedded & firmware
Stated pay
USD 150,000–250,000 / year
Posted
2026-11-07 (8 days ago)
Visa sponsorship mentioned
Not mentioned
Listing source
Ashby

LLMPyTorchRust

About the role

QUALIFICATIONS - Hands-on experience developing GPU kernels. NICE TO HAVES - Prior work on kernel autoresearch frameworks is a very strong positive. - Experience with ML compilers is a strong positive, but not required. - Hardware performance analysis, memory hierarchies, parallel execution, and benchmarking. - CUDA, Triton, GPU instruction sets, or compiler systems such as MLIR/LLVM and PyTorch backends. - Rust, open-source compiler contributions, or work on other accelerators. No degree requirement. Researchers, recent PhDs, and candidates with substantial relevant projects are welcome. COMPANY Luminal (YC S25) builds an AI compiler and serving stack that optimizes models for faster, more…

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