Research Engineer - CUDA Kernel Engineering

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Hiring Remotely in Office, Machaze, Manica, MOZ
Remote
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology
The Role
Develop and optimize CUDA kernels for AI models to enhance semiconductor design and verification, ensuring efficient GPU utilization for training and inference.
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About Voltai
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

About the Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

About the Role

You will develop, integrate, and optimize state-of-the-art CUDA kernels to power AI models that accelerate semiconductor design and verification. Your work will enable large-scale model training, inference, and reinforcement learning systems that reason about circuit layouts, generate and validate RTL, and optimize chip architectures — running efficiently across thousands of GPUs.
You’ll build tools, performance benchmarks, and integration layers that push the limits of GPU utilization for compute-intensive workloads in AI-driven hardware design. Working closely with researchers and engineers, you’ll help make Voltai the world’s leading AI + semiconductor research organization. You’ll also release your kernels and tooling as contributions to the open-source AI and HPC ecosystems.

You might thrive in this role if you have experience with

  • Writing and optimizing CUDA kernels for large-scale AI workloads (attention, routing, graph-based operations, physics-inspired operators, etc.)

  • Profiling and optimizing GPU performance for custom compute or memory-bound workloads

  • Integrating custom kernels into cutting-edge training and inference frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Megatron, vLLM, TorchTitan)

  • Working with the latest NVIDIA hardware and software stacks (Hopper, Blackwell, NVLink, NCCL, Triton)

  • Building GPU-accelerated primitives for graph reasoning, symbolic computation, or hardware simulation tasks

  • Collaborating with AI researchers and semiconductor experts to translate domain-specific workloads into high-performance GPU code

Skills Required

  • Experience in writing and optimizing CUDA kernels for large-scale AI workloads
  • Proficient in profiling and optimizing GPU performance
  • Experience integrating custom kernels into training and inference frameworks
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA hardware and software stacks
  • Ability to build GPU-accelerated primitives for computation tasks
  • Collaboration skills with AI researchers and semiconductor experts
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The Company
HQ: Dartmouth
4 Employees

What We Do

AI models for electronics

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