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Principal Engineer, Model Performance

Runware is hiring for Principal Engineer, Model Performance in San Jose, California, United States. Staff level. First seen November 7, 2026; open as of November 14, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Runware
Where
San Jose, California, United States
Level
Staff
First seen
November 7, 2026
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What the posting says

The role As Principal Engineer, Model Performance, you will own how fast and how cheaply every model on Runware runs: diffusion and video generation, speech, 3D and LLMs, across 400,000+ models and tens of thousands of GPUs. You will set the performance roadmap, build the hardest pieces with your own hands, and build and lead the Model Performance team as it grows around you. This is a principal-level role for someone who has led inference performance work at the frontier and still writes the kernel. You will decide where the next 2x comes from on a given model and hardware generation,…

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