Research Engineer - AI Performance & Kernel Optimization is open at Zyphra in San Francisco. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $194K. Posted on Mar 16, 2026, and still on Zyphra’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Research Engineer - AI Performance & Kernel Optimization, you will improve and optimize the performance of our large-scale language model training and inference stacks. You will work closely with our pretraining and inference teams to identify bottlenecks, design and implement highly optimized kernels, and push the limits of throughput, latency, and hardware utilization across a range of accelerator platforms…
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