AI Performance Engineer

Posted 2 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office
100K-150K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software • Consulting
The Role
Optimize end-to-end AI training and inference pipelines for throughput, latency, and cost. Implement model compression, distributed training/inference optimizations, compiler-level improvements, KV cache and batching strategies, and build benchmark/regression suites. Collaborate with ML and platform teams, evaluate hardware/software offerings, and document performance playbooks.
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AI Performance Engineer – Remote
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job Title: AI Performance Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually
Experience Required: 6+ years
Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Key Responsibilities
  • Profile and optimize end-to-end AI training and inference pipelines for throughput, latency, and cost.
  • Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across data loading, model compute, communication, and memory.
  • Implement and tune quantization, sparsity, and pruning strategies to reduce model footprint and accelerate inference.
  • Optimize distributed training using tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism, FSDP, and ZeRO-style sharding.
  • Tune attention implementations using FlashAttention, paged attention, and related techniques.
  • Implement KV cache optimization, continuous batching, and speculative decoding for LLM serving.
  • Drive compiler-level optimizations using Triton, XLA, TorchInductor, or TVM, working with the broader ML framework community to land improvements that translate into measurable end-to-end performance gains.
  • Optimize data pipelines, sharding strategies, and storage access patterns for high-throughput training.
  • Build and maintain rigorous benchmark suites and regression frameworks across workloads.
  • Collaborate with ML and platform engineering teams to embed best practices in standard pipelines.
  • Drive cost-efficiency improvements through model architecture, hardware selection, and scheduling strategies.
  • Evaluate new hardware and software offerings, and advise on adoption.
  • Document performance tuning playbooks and share findings broadly across engineering teams.
  • Stay current with AI systems research and translate advances into production improvements.
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Six or more years of experience in performance engineering, ML systems, or HPC.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and C++.
  • Hands-on experience optimizing deep learning workloads on modern GPUs.
  • Deep understanding of distributed training and inference techniques.
  • Experience with profiling tools across CPU, GPU, and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with model compression techniques and their accuracy implications.
  • Strong grasp of memory hierarchies, communication primitives, and parallelism strategies.
  • Excellent measurement, debugging, and analytical reasoning skills.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience optimizing LLM inference at production scale.
  • Contributions to vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, DeepSpeed, or similar projects.
  • Familiarity with custom kernel authoring in Triton or CUTLASS.
  • Experience with FinOps for AI workloads.
  • Publications or talks on AI systems performance.
How to Apply
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to [email protected] or contact us at (908) 505-3899. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
 

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • Six or more years of experience in performance engineering, ML systems, or HPC
  • Strong proficiency in Python and C++
  • Hands-on experience optimizing deep learning workloads on modern GPUs
  • Deep understanding of distributed training and inference techniques
  • Experience with profiling tools across CPU, GPU, and distributed systems
  • Familiarity with model compression techniques and their accuracy implications
  • Strong grasp of memory hierarchies, communication primitives, and parallelism strategies
  • Excellent measurement, debugging, and analytical reasoning skills
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience optimizing LLM inference at production scale
  • Contributions to vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, DeepSpeed, or similar projects
  • Familiarity with custom kernel authoring in Triton or CUTLASS
  • Experience with FinOps for AI workloads
  • Publications or talks on AI systems performance
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The Company
53 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Bright Vision Technologies is a minority-owned organization founded in July 2020 and based in New Jersey, USA. The company specializes in delivering top-tier staffing and IT consulting services, including custom computer programming and systems design. Additionally, they are a product engineering firm with a flagship AI-powered talent intelligence and enterprise automation platform called Lumina, which helps transform IT into a strategic asset for their valued partners.

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