Helix AI Engineer, Training Performance
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Responsibilities
- Optimize training performance for a 100B+ parameter models across 100k+ GPUs.
- Collaborate with the broader team on accelerator choice, cluster topology, scheduling, and hardware procurement decisions to inform future scaling.
- Write and optimize custom kernels (Triton/CUDA)
- Build tooling and dashboards for continuous performance monitoring, regression detection, and root-cause analysis across training jobs
- Optimize data loading and preprocessing pipelines so I/O never gates the accelerators
- Improve checkpointing, fault tolerance, and elastic restart so large jobs recover quickly from node failures without losing significant wall-clock time
- Partner with researchers to co-design model architectures and training recipes that are performant at scale (e.g., activation checkpointing strategies, mixed precision, sequence packing)
- Extend and contribute to kernel compilers (e.g., Triton, Gluon) to improve iteration speed and enable targeting of custom/non-NVIDIA accelerators
- Build and extend agentic systems that automatically generate, benchmark, and iterate on custom kernels
- Evaluate emerging accelerator architectures (AMD, TPU, SRAM-based ASICs, and other novel hardware) for fit with our training workloads, and lead proof-of-concept ports/benchmarks
- Explore different model/data parallelisms (FSDP, context parallel, expert parallel, etc.) to determine optimal configuration per model size.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years in AI performance engineering, with significant time leading large-scale performance improvement projects
- Deep understanding of GPU architecture and performance characteristics (memory bandwidth, compute-bound vs. memory-bound ops, occupancy)
- Proficiency with profiling tools (Nsight Systems/Compute, PyTorch Profiler, HTA, or similar) and ability to translate traces into concrete optimizations
- Solid grasp of collective communication (NCCL) and modern networking concepts (RDMA, NVLink, InfiniBand/RoCE, topology-aware placement).
- Strong Python and CUDA/C++ skills; comfortable reading and modifying framework internals
- Experience debugging performance regressions and instability at scale (stragglers, hangs, OOMs, numerical divergence)
- Experience defining and reasoning about hardware-efficiency metrics (MFU/HFU) and using them to drive optimization priorities
- Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with heterogeneous or multi-datacenter training setups and cross-cluster orchestration
- Contributions to open-source ML systems projects (PyTorch, Megatron-LM, vLLM, DeepSpeed, JAX, etc.)
- Exposure to non-NVIDIA accelerators (AMD GPUs, TPU/Trainium/Inferentia, or custom silicon) and heterogeneous fleet management.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $200,000 - $400,000 annually.
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
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