AI Performance Engineer is open at Applied in Sunnyvale. The posting gives a salary of $215K - $285K. Posted on Aug 12, 2026, and still on Applied’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are looking for a performance engineer who specializes in making large-scale machine learning workloads fast and cost-efficient in the datacenter. This role is focused on distributed training runs spanning many nodes, and high-throughput batch inference sweeping petabytes of real-world autonomy logs for auto-labeling, data mining, ground-truth generation, and evaluation. The optimization target here is not tail…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Applied’s careers page.
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