What is GPU Kernel Development and how common is it in AI job postings?

GPU Kernel Development is a skill in the "Infrastructure & Systems" category. It currently appears in 111 active AI roles across 32 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for GPU Kernel Development?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning GPU Kernel Development are: NVIDIA (25), Amazon (17), ByteDance (8), OpenAI (6), Microsoft (4).

Is demand for GPU Kernel Development growing?

Over the last 12 weeks, 55 new AI postings mentioned GPU Kernel Development. Demand is declining — down 59% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

At which stage of AI development is GPU Kernel Development used?

Roles requiring GPU Kernel Development are concentrated in: serving infrastructure (77%), post-training (6%), agents (5%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

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GPU Kernel Development

111 active AI roles across 32 companies mention GPU Kernel Development. Category: Infrastructure & Systems.

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New AI postings mentioning GPU Kernel Development per week — 55 total over 12 weeks.

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97 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
NVIDIA	Software Engineer, AI and DL Kernel Libraries	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Deep Learning Performance Architect	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Senior Systems Software Engineer, AI Stack and Performance - DGX Station	Semiconductors	9	L3
Adobe	Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Firefly Foundry	Enterprise	9	L0
NVIDIA	Principal High-Performance LLM Training Engineer	Semiconductors	9	L1
NVIDIA	Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Senior Deep Learning Algorithms Engineer - BioNeMo	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Senior Software Engineer, AI and DL Kernel Libraries	Semiconductors	9	L3
Perplexity	Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)	AI Frontier	9	L3
ByteDance	Research Engineer - LLM/VLM Inference Optimization (Seed Infra)	Big Tech	9	L3
ByteDance	Research Engineer - LLM/VLM Inference Optimization (Seed Infra)	Big Tech	9	L3
OpenAI	Inference Technical Lead, On-Device Transformers	AI Frontier	9	L3
Microsoft	Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Infrastructure - MAI Superintelligence Team	Big Tech	9	L3
ByteDance	Research Engineer – Reinforcement Learning (RL) Systems & Infrastructure (Seed Infra)	Big Tech	9	L0
NVIDIA	Senior Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer, Inference	Semiconductors	9	L3
Cohere	Senior ML Systems Engineer, Frameworks & Tooling	AI Frontier	9	L1
Databricks	Senior GenAI Research Engineer - Optimization and Kernels	Data AI	9	L1
ByteDance	Machine Learning Engineer, AI Coding Tools	Big Tech	9	L4
OpenAI	Training Performance Engineer	AI Frontier	9	L0
OpenAI	Software Engineer, Inference – AMD GPU Enablement	AI Frontier	9	L3
Databricks	Staff Software Engineer - GenAI Performance and Kernel	Data AI	9	L3
Anthropic	Performance Engineer, GPU	AI Frontier	9	L3
Fireworks AI	Member of Technical Staff, Performance Optimization	Data AI	9	L3
OpenAI	Inference Technical Lead, Sora	AI Frontier	9	L3
Together AI	Systems Research Engineer, GPU Programming	Data AI	9	L3
AMD	AI Framework Eng.	Semiconductors	8	L3
JPMorgan Chase	Applied AI ML Lead	Banking	8	L4
Rivian	Staff ML Engineer, Hardware Software Co-Design	Auto	8	L3
Amazon	Software Development Manager, AWS Neuron SDK - Distributed Training	Big Tech	8	L2

Frequently asked questions

What is GPU Kernel Development and how common is it in AI job postings?
GPU Kernel Development is a skill in the "Infrastructure & Systems" category. It currently appears in 111 active AI roles across 32 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for GPU Kernel Development?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning GPU Kernel Development are: NVIDIA (25), Amazon (17), ByteDance (8), OpenAI (6), Microsoft (4).
Is demand for GPU Kernel Development growing?
Over the last 12 weeks, 55 new AI postings mentioned GPU Kernel Development. Demand is declining — down 59% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
At which stage of AI development is GPU Kernel Development used?
Roles requiring GPU Kernel Development are concentrated in: serving infrastructure (77%), post-training (6%), agents (5%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

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