Kernel Engineer (Internship and Full-time)

Tilde Research

• $110K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in deep learning or related fields
  • Proven experience developing ML kernels, especially with strong open source contributions
  • Demonstrated technical writing skills through blog posts or work logs
  • Familiarity with PyTorch, Triton/TK/TileLang (at least one), and basic CUDA knowledge
  • Strong understanding of GPU architecture
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize custom GPU kernels for core model operations
  • Collaborate with ML engineers to prototype novel model architectures
  • Enhance system-wide efficiency and throughput beyond kernel-level changes
  • Perform rigorous performance testing and benchmarking
  • Participate in regular code reviews and maintain code quality
  • Contribute to architecture discussions focused on hardware capabilities
  • Provide feedback and insights to improve ML model integration

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunities to work on cutting-edge research and technology
  • Flexible working hours and work-from-home options
  • Access to professional development resources
  • Support for participation in industry conferences and workshops
Full Job Description
About the role:

As a Kernel Engineer at Tilde, you'll design, implement, and optimize high-performance GPU kernels that are critical to scaling our training and inference workloads. Your work will enable faster iteration cycles, higher throughput, and lower latency. You'll work closely with ML researchers and engineers to co-design models and infrastructure that are deeply performance-aware, and help push the limits of what current hardware can support.

What you might work on:
  • Design, develop, and tune custom GPU kernels for core model operations
  • Work with ML engineers to prototype and scale novel model architectures
  • Contribute to system-wide efforts to improve efficiency and throughput, beyond just kernel-level optimizations


You're a good fit if you:
  • Have experience in deep learning or related research areas
  • Have demonstrated exceptional capability in working on ML kernels. This can include:
    • Strong open source contributions
    • Thoughtful technical blog posts/work logs
    • Previous experience working on hardware-aligned algorithms
  • Deep familiarity with PyTorch, Triton/TK/TileLang (>1 of), basic familiarity with CUDA, and knowledge of GPU architecture.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
  • Strong algorithmic thinker
  • Are able to learn quickly

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