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.

Demand trend

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

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122 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
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
ByteDance	Tech Lead, Research Scientist/Engineer - AI Infrastructure	Big Tech	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
AMD	Sr. Software Development Engineer	Semiconductors	8	L3
JPMorgan Chase	Applied AI ML Lead	Banking	8	L4
Rivian	Staff ML Engineer, Hardware Software Co-Design	Auto	8	L3
Cerebras	ML Systems Performance Engineer	Semiconductors	8	L3
Amazon	Software Development Manager, AWS Neuron SDK - Distributed Training	Big Tech	8	L2
AMD	Lead GPU Kernel Optimization Engineer	Semiconductors	8	L3
Rivian	Sr. Staff ML Engineer, Quantization & Compression	Auto	8	L3
Rivian	Sr. Staff ML Engineer, Hardware Software Co-Design	Auto	8	L3
AMD	Senior AI Software Architect - Autonomous Systems	Semiconductors	8	L3
Google	Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML, Google Public Sector	Big Tech	8	L3
Skydio	Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Infrastructure	Defense	8	L3
JPMorgan Chase	Asset Management - AI Systems Engineer – Associate/VP	Banking	8	L3
Amazon	Software Development Engineer - AI/ML, Amazon Neuron, Multimodal Inference	Big Tech	8	L3
JPMorgan Chase	Senior Lead Security Engineer, AI	Banking	8	L4
NVIDIA	Senior Perception Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles	Semiconductors	8	L6
Intel	Principal Engineer: XeSS and Neural Graphics	Semiconductors	8	L6
NVIDIA	Senior Software Engineer - VLM Microservices for Neural Reconstruction	Semiconductors	8	L3
Capital One	Manager, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems	Banking	8	L4
NVIDIA	Senior AI-Native Systems Software Engineer, TensorRT	Semiconductors	8	L4

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.

GPU Kernel Development

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