{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"128a8c827e07181e0352923d","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/128a8c827e07181e0352923d","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/128a8c827e07181e0352923d","title":"Senior Engineer 2: Inference Optimizations","description":"Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.\n\nDigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key technical role in our AI Inference Optimization team. DigitalOcean aims to be the Inference Cloud of choice for digitally native companies and you will help ensure we can offer the industry-leading performance for our inference services. You will be responsible for the architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency for the world’s most advanced large models. As an IC leader, you will act as a force multiplier for the engineering organization, solving the most complex bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and compute utilization while guiding the technical roadmap for our high-performance inference fleet.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nPerformance Architecture: Lead the technical strategy for benchmarking and performance optimizations at the inference engine and GPU kernel layers, ensuring our infrastructure extracts maximum value from every TFLOP.\nDeep-Dive Optimization: Engineer solutions for complex performance issues, including attention layer optimizations, memory and precision management, and advanced parallelization across multi-node GPU clusters.\nTechnological Innovation: Proactively implement cutting-edge optimization techniques to keep DigitalOcean at the forefront of the Gen AI landscape. Some examples of projects you may work on:\nImproving batch size performance using AMD's AITER library for AMD MI355X - identify and tune AITER's CK (composable kernel) or ASK (assembly) to optimize FP8 / BF16\nIdentify kernel fusion opportunities for GLM-5 kernels for different layers of the Transformer block (FlashAttention, RMS Norm)\nTune expert gateway router kernels for MoE models like Qwen3-235B, DeepSeek V3, GLM-5 etc\nHardware & Ecosystem Mastery: Act as the subject matter expert on modern GPU families (NVIDIA/AMD) and their software stacks (CUDA, ROCm, TensorRT, OpenAI Triton), advising on hardware procurement and software integration.\nTechnical Mentorship: Lead by example through high-quality code and design reviews, elevating the technical bar for the team without the administrative overhead of direct management.\nStrategic Collaboration: Partner with Product Management and TPMs to translate \"theoretical hardware limits\" into \"shippable product features,\" ensuring our platform is both powerful and developer-friendly.\nCommunity Leadership: Maintain a strong presence in the GPU infrastructure and model performance optimization communities, contributing to and integrating the best of open-source AI.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring To DigitalOcean\n\nTechnical Depth: 5+ years of experience in high-performance computing or AI infrastructure, with a proven track record of solving compute utilization and memory bandwidth bottlenecks.\nGen AI Literacy: Deep familiarity with the Gen AI (LLM, VLM, LMM) landscape, including the specific quirks and architectural requirements of major model families.\nOptimization Expert: Hands-on experience with attention-layer optimizations and parallelization strategies across distributed GPU environments.\nHardware Fluency: Comprehensive understanding of NVIDIA and AMD GPU architectures and their respective software ecosystems (CUDA, ROCm, etc.).\nOpen Source Mastery: Extensive experience integrating, building with, and contributing to open-source software projects.\nSystems Design: Excellent system design skills, particularly related to low-level GPU programming - optimization, memory access patterns, and parallel execution.\nLeadership through Influence: Experience acting as a technical lead, driving design and delivery through cross-functional alignment and expert-level delegation.\n\nCompensation Range\n\n$167,200.00 to $209,000\nThis is a remote role\n\nJR: 2026-7593\n\nWhy You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean\n\nWe innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.\nWe prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.\nWe care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.\nWe reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.\nDigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. 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Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.\n\nDigitalOcean is seeking a Senior Engineer 2 to play a key technical role in our AI Inference Optimization team. DigitalOcean aims to be the Inference Cloud of choice for digitally native companies and you will help ensure we can offer the industry-leading performance for our inference services. You will be responsible for the architectural decisions that maximize throughput and minimize latency for the world’s most advanced large models. 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