Principal AI Performance Engineer

About the role

About the Job

Set the performance direction behind large-scale AI systems built for real deployment.

As a Principal AI Performance Engineer, you will define how the company analyzes and optimizes AI training and inference workloads. Your work will shape decisions across hardware, software, networking and system architecture.

You will lead the hardest performance investigations, from model behavior to multi-node scaling. You will turn profiling, benchmarking and modeling evidence into technical roadmaps and engineering priorities.

You will set measurement standards, guide distributed communication strategy and review critical C++ and Python tools. Your judgment will help teams make better decisions when data is incomplete.

This role gives you rare influence across AI infrastructure at data center scale. It is based in Austin, Texas.

The team and culture

The System Engineering Performance team arch

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