Destava

Research Engineer - AI Performance & Kernel Optimization

Zyphra is hiring for Research Engineer - AI Performance & Kernel Optimization in San Francisco. Mid level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Zyphra
Where
San Francisco
Level
Mid
First seen
August 6, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

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. This role is suited for someone who enjoys deep systems work, cares about performance at every level of the stack, and is excited to translate low-level optimizations…

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