Modular
The AI Runtime Engineer at Modular is responsible for owning and optimizing a runtime across various CPU, GPU, and accelerator hardware platforms to achieve state-of-the-art performance for diverse AI models. This role involves designing cross-stack optimizations to address performance issues like CPU overhead and data locality, while collaborating with vendor-specific networking libraries to enhance data transfer speeds. The position requires working closely with internal teams and customers to understand performance requirements and develop automated systems for performance analysis and benchmarking.
Modular is a unified AI inference platform that spans from custom GPU kernels to production cloud serving, supporting NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, and Apple Silicon hardware. Its MAX serving framework delivers high-performance, hardware-agnostic inference for top open models as well as custom models, with deployment options including Modular's managed cloud, customer VPCs, or self-hosted environments. Modular also develops Mojo, a high-performance systems language for writing custom GPU and CPU kernels, enabling full-stack optimizations across text, image, video, and audio workloads.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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