Kernel Engineer (Custom Silicon), Hardware is open at River AI Inc. in Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $420K. Posted on Jun 28, 2026, and still on River AI Inc.’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are looking for exceptional performance and kernel generation engineers to build the foundational compute engine for our high-performance custom silicon. In this role, you will design and implement robust kernel generators that programmatically emit optimized low-level assembly code for our greenfield hardware architecture. You will bridge the gap between high-level compilation and raw hardware capability…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on River AI Inc.’s careers page.
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River AI Inc. has 24 open roles right now. Most are in Engineering, Data & Research and Operations. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $310K. See all its roles
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