Senior AI Performance Engineer
Originally posted 9 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior AI Performance Engineer, you will analyze and optimize AI training and inference workloads across large-scale distributed systems. Your work will connect compute, memory, communication and software behavior.
What you'll do
- Analyze and optimize AI training and inference workloads across large-scale distributed systems.
- Own complex performance investigations from problem definition through validation.
- Turn profiling, benchmarking and modeling results into improvements.
- Design benchmarks and investigate system bottlenecks.
- Optimize distributed communication software across technologies such as MPI, NCCL, UCX and RDMA.
What you'll need
- Strong experience profiling and optimizing AI, machine learning or high-performance computing workloads.
- Experience with distributed systems and communication libraries such as MPI, NCCL, UCX or libfabric.
- Strong C++ and Python skills, including reliable tools or performance-sensitive software.
- Deep understanding of compute, memory and communication behavior in large-scale systems.
- Ability to own complex technical work and coordinate improvements across teams.
Skills: AI training, inference workloads, distributed systems, performance optimization, C++, Python
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This role has been open 25 days — well below the 54-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
998
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Median days open
54 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Graphcore | All employers we track in this specialty (998 roles · 90 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 48 | 998 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 107 | 6352 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 96 d | 54 d (+42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AI training, inference workloads, distributed systems, performance optimization, C++, Python
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 305 open roles · median 57 d
- Qualcomm · 58 open roles · median 56 d
- AMD · 48 open roles · median 33 d
- Graphcore (this employer) · 48 open roles · median 96 d
- Intel Corporation · 45 open roles · median 19 d
- Arm Holdings · 37 open roles · median 6 d
How we counted: 998 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 90 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 3 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.