About the Role
We are building the fastest GPU compiler in the world, which proves correctness at the end of transformations to allow for a wider search space. We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff for AI-Driven Compilation to own the search process, building agentic and RL systems to optimize program transformations.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement RL systems that search over a massive program space: instruction selection, schedules, tile sizes, fusion strategies and phase ordering
- Build agentic compilation loops that use LLMs to reason about IR, propose transformations and learn from measured results
- Design the search and credit-assignment machinery around an exact reward built from measured latency on real hardware and a formal correctness proof
- Create representations and embeddings of compiler IR that hold up under learned optimization
- Build the training infrastructure for compiler optimization agents, including rollout throughput and distributed evaluation on real silicon
- Push transfer and cold-start performance so that the search works on unfamiliar targets and new ISAs from the first trial
- Close the loop with production workloads so that the compiler keeps improving from what customers actually run
- Work directly with our compiler and kernel engineers to land learned components in the shipping pipeline
- Run rigorous experiments, dig into the results, iterate on them and publish or open-source some of them
Requirements
- Strong background in reinforcement learning with hands-on experience training agents
- Experience building LLM agents, tool use and other agentic systems
- Familiarity in GPU programming concepts and a willingness to get down to the ISA
- Proficiency in PyTorch or JAX
- Ability to design and run experiments that produce trustworthy results
Skills
- Reinforcement Learning
- LLM Agents
- GPU Programming
- PyTorch
- JAX
- Compiler IR
- Experiment Design
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Member of Technical Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $275,000-$315,000
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Relocation assistance
About the Company
- SF Tensor is building the future of high-performance compute for AI by rethinking and rebuilding the compute stack from hardware to cloud.
- We are backed by Susa Ventures, Y Combinator, and other notable investors and industry leaders.
- We are a small team that has achieved significant milestones, including pre-training foundation models on 4,000 AMD GPUs and designing large-scale compute clusters and supercomputers.
