
Senior Engineer – Inference Optimizations
DigitalOcean
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $167,200 - $209,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead the technical strategy for benchmarking and performance optimizations
- Engineer solutions for complex performance issues
- Implement cutting-edge optimization techniques
- Act as the subject matter expert on modern GPU families
- Lead by example through high-quality code and design reviews
- Partner with Product Management and TPMs to translate theoretical limits into shippable product features
- Maintain a strong presence in the GPU infrastructure and optimization communities
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in high-performance computing or AI infrastructure
- Deep familiarity with the Gen AI (LLM, VLM, LMM) landscape
- Hands-on experience with attention-layer optimizations
- Comprehensive understanding of NVIDIA and AMD GPU architectures
- Extensive experience integrating, building with, and contributing to open-source software projects
- Excellent system design skills related to low-level GPU programming
- Experience acting as a technical lead
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Program
- Equity compensation
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
high-performance computingAI infrastructureattention-layer optimizationsNVIDIA GPU architectureAMD GPU architecturelow-level GPU programmingopen-source softwareperformance optimization techniquesbenchmarkingtechnical leadership
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdesign review