KERNEL ENGINEER is open at Makermaker.ai in San Francisco. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $194K. Posted on Oct 12, 2026, and still on Makermaker.ai’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You'll write and optimize the GPU kernels and supporting systems software that makes our training and inference workloads fast. This is deep, low-level work (performance counters, memory bandwidth, warp-level scheduling) applied to the specific shapes and patterns our models actually use. We hire kernel engineers because the gap between "this works" and "this is fast on the hardware we have" is enormous, and that…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Makermaker.ai’s careers page.
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