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Performance Engineer (C++, Python, Rust)
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About the Role
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models. We're seeking talented Performance Engineers with deep expertise in low-level systems optimization - specifically C++, Python, and Rust - to bring hands-on technical excellence and elevate the quality of our AI training and inference infrastructure data. This role involves AI model training and evaluation work, including writing and assessing performance-engineering tasks
What You'll Do
- Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in systems-level optimization, compiler engineering, and runtime performance topics.
- Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks across multiple specializations, and write accurate and well-structured solutions to performance engineering problems.
- Evaluate performance engineering tasks and solutions and provide clear, written technical feedback.
- Develop guidelines and detailed rubrics/evaluation frameworks to assess systems design quality across AI workloads.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Relevant professional experience in this field.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Available for the stated weekly commitment.
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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