Member of Technical Staff, Local Inference & Kernels is open at Sonder in New York City. The posting gives a salary of $250K - $300K. Posted on Sep 18, 2026, and still on Sonder’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are looking for an inference and performance engineer to own the systems layer between our models and the hardware they run on. You will make our models faster, smaller, and more power-efficient, working from model execution and quantization down to memory layouts and custom GPU kernels. We are starting with Apple Silicon and macOS, using MLX and Metal. Our models run throughout the working day, sharing memory…
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