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GPU Kernel Expert
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and completeness of GPU/accelerator kernel development tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess numerical correctness, performance benchmarking fairness, task scoping, and compilation/runtime validity across diverse kernel task types — and provide…
PLATFORMMercor
LOCATIONRemote — United States
PAY$70–$90/hr
SCHEDULE40 hrs/week
LAST CHECKED11 Nov 2026
THE OPPORTUNITY
Put your skills to work.
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and completeness of GPU/accelerator kernel development tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess numerical correctness, performance benchmarking fairness, task scoping, and compilation/runtime validity across diverse kernel task types — and provide…
- Commitment
- hourly
- Hours per week
- 40
- Field
- Software Engineering
- Open slots
- 3
- Eligible countries
- USA
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and completeness of GPU/accelerator kernel development tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess numerical correctness, performance-benchmarking fairness, task scoping, and compilation/runtime validity across diverse kernel task types — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing, optimizing, or verifying GPU/accelerator kernels in at least two of: CUDA, Triton, NKI, or Pallas (JAX)
- Strong understanding of numerical-correctness criteria for kernels (absolute/relative/ULP tolerances, reference-implementation selection)
- Demonstrated experience with performance profiling and benchmarking (nsight, ncu, roofline analysis, or framework-native profilers)
- Familiarity with common compilation and runtime failure modes (driver mismatches, OOM, launch-configuration errors, shape/stride mismatches, autotuning failures)
- Experience with at least three kernel task types: generation from specification, translation/lowering across frameworks, migration between hardware targets, debugging, performance optimization, or operator fusion
- Experience across both NVIDIA GPU (CUDA/Triton) and custom-accelerator (NKI/Pallas/TPU) ecosystems
- Background in compiler engineering, MLIR, or intermediate-representation lowering
- Understanding of memory-hierarchy optimization (shared-memory tiling, register pressure, bank conflicts, coalescing patterns)
- Contributions to kernel libraries (cuBLAS, cuDNN, Triton community kernels, JAX/XLA custom calls)
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