GPU Kernel Developer - AI Trainer

Mercor, Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States
11 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$145,600.0 - $187,200.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Profiling Nvidia CUDA Linux Kernel

Job description

  • Evaluate the quality and correctness of GPU/accelerator kernel development tasks for training and evaluating AI models.
  • Assess numerical correctness, performance-benchmarking fairness, and task scoping across diverse kernel task types.
  • Review compilation and runtime validity, providing clear, rubric-based written feedback.
  • Collaborate with AI research teams to improve model training and evaluation processes.
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Requirements

Must-Have

  • 3+ years of experience with CUDA, Triton, NKI, or Pallas (JAX).
  • Strong understanding of numerical-correctness criteria for kernels.
  • Experience with performance profiling and benchmarking (e.g., nsight, ncu).
  • Familiarity with common compilation and runtime failure modes.
  • Experience with at least three kernel task types.

Preferred

  • Experience with both NVIDIA GPU and custom-accelerator ecosystems.
  • Background in compiler engineering, MLIR, or intermediate-representation lowering.
  • Understanding of memory-hierarchy optimization.
  • Contributions to kernel libraries like cuBLAS, cuDNN, or Triton.

About the company

About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst…

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