Staff Engineer, Local Inference & Kernel Optimization
sonderNew York (NY)
Staff Engineer, Local Inference & Kernel Optimization
Posted today
sonderNew York (NY)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Sonder is seeking an inference and performance engineer to own the systems layer between our models and the hardware they run on—starting with Apple Silicon and macOS. You will make our models faster, smaller, and more power-efficient through kernel optimization, memory layouts, and quantization. You will work closely with researchers to co-design inference systems, profiling from workloads to measured improvements, and shipping reliable local inference stacks across the Mac platform.
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