TPU Kernel Engineer
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · AI Research & Engineering · listed May 22, 2025
The shape of it
Seniority
Not stated
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$280,000 – $850,000 USD
Requirements listed
6
Length
842 words
In the posting’s own words
As a TPU Kernel Engineer, you'll be responsible for identifying and addressing performance issues across many different ML systems, including research, training, and inference. A significant portion of this work will involve designing and optimizing kernels for the TPU. You will also provide feedback to researchers about how model changes impact performance. Strong candidates will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and low-level optimization.
What it asks for · 6
- Have significant experience optimizing ML systems for TPUs, GPUs, or other accelerators
- Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
- Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description
- Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
- Want to learn more about machine learning research
- Care about the societal impacts of your work
Also a plus
- High performance, large-scale ML systems
- Designing and implementing kernels for TPUs or other ML accelerators
- Understanding accelerators at a deep level, e.g. a background in computer architecture
- ML framework internals
- Language modeling with transformers
Tools and skills named
Models & research
- Machine learning6×
- Inference2×
- GPU
- LLM
Ways of working
- Slack
Words the posting leans on
- performance5×
- systems5×
- kernel4×
- models4×
- accelerators3×
- impact3×
- designing2×
- experience2×
- implement2×
- inference2×
- language2×
- large-scale systems2×
- optimizing2×
- pair2×
- research2×
- significant2×
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