CUDA Engineer

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CUDA Engineer writing and optimizing performance-critical GPU code at a renewable energy startup. Focusing on high-performance compute infrastructure to support AI applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Write and optimise custom CUDA kernels for core transformer inference operations.
  • Profile kernels to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in occupancy, memory throughput, and warp divergence.
  • Apply kernel fusion to reduce memory round-trips and launch overhead across inference pipelines.
  • Optimise memory access patterns and manage the memory hierarchy for maximum bandwidth utilisation.
  • Implement quantisation-aware kernels and mixed-precision arithmetic to reduce latency and memory footprint.
  • Build and tune caching mechanisms for efficient autoregressive decoding.
  • Tune kernel launch configurations for target GPU architectures.
  • Benchmark kernels against existing baselines and drive measurable throughput and latency improvements.
  • Write tests for CUDA code to catch performance and correctness regressions.
  • Maintain internal CUDA libraries and contribute to team coding standards and documentation.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years writing production CUDA code, with a track record of shipping performance-critical kernels.
  • Deep understanding of GPU microarchitecture, warps, occupancy, register pressure, and memory hierarchy.
  • Strong CUDA C++ skills, including streams and asynchronous execution.
  • Hands-on experience profiling to diagnose compute-bound vs. memory-bound bottlenecks.
  • Experience with kernel fusion, memory coalescing, and avoiding warp divergence.
  • Experience writing quantised and mixed-precision kernels.
  • Solid grasp of parallel algorithm design and numerical precision tradeoffs.
  • Nice to Have
  • Experience with transformer/attention-style kernels or autoregressive decoding.
  • Experience building high-performance GPU libraries from scratch.
  • Background in HPC or other latency-critical performance engineering.
  • Exposure to multi-GPU or multi-node kernel-level optimisation.
  • Comfortable reading PTX/SASS to validate kernel efficiency.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and an equity sign-on bonus.
  • Biannual bonus scheme.
  • Fully expensed tech to match your needs.
  • Breakfast and dinner allowance for office based employees.