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Modular · 2 days ago

GenAI Performance Engineer

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$167K/yr - $286K/yr
date5+ years exp

Modular is on a mission to revolutionize AI infrastructure by rebuilding the AI software stack. As a GenAI Performance Engineer, you will optimize the performance of Modular’s MAX product, collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance AI model deployment and performance analysis tooling.

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Responsibilities

Measure, analyze, and identify opportunities to improve the performance of the MAX product under realistic and relevant usage patterns
Partner with the product and customer teams to understand the performance of the MAX product in both standard and cutting edge AI applications and design benchmarks to reflect them
Collaborate with the kernels and GenAI modeling team to bring up new model families
Collaborate with the kernels and runtime team to bring up and optimize new GPUs and accelerators
Collaborate with the cloud team to design and benchmark advanced serving features and new serving algorithms
Build statistical models and tools to operate on benchmarking & telemetry data and help develop key insights for performance, cloud costs, etc

Qualification

Performance analysisBenchmarkingPythonProduction-quality softwareCuriosityCommunication skillsCreativity

Required

5+ years of professional or postgraduate academic experience working on or researching performance analysis, tooling or benchmarking
Expertise in performance measurement (i.e. benchmarking), modeling, and analysis on real-world workloads
Extensive experience with Python
Creativity and curiosity for solving complex problems
Experience writing production-quality software
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

Premier insurance plans
Up to 5% 401k matching
Flexible paid time off
Annual target bonus
Equity
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Company

Modular

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Modular provides AI infrastructure for deployment, serving, and programming GPUs.
dateFounded in 2022
location
Palo Alto, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.modular.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (10)
2024 (6)
2023 (8)
2022 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$380M
Key Investors
US Innovative Technology FundGeneral CatalystGoogle Ventures
2025-09-24Series C· $250M
2023-08-24Series B· $100M
2022-06-30Seed· $30M

Leadership Team

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Chris Lattner
CEO + Co-Founder
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Tim Davis
Co-Founder & President
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