New AI postings mentioning Performance Optimization per week — 458 total over 12 weeks.
747 active AI roles across 115 companies mention Performance Optimization. Category: General Experience & Skills.
Performance Optimization is a skill in the "General Experience & Skills" category. It currently appears in 747 active AI roles across 115 companies in our index.
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Performance Optimization are: NVIDIA (143), Amazon (85), Microsoft (32), Capital One (32), Google (31).
Over the last 12 weeks, 458 new AI postings mentioned Performance Optimization. Demand is rising — up 111% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
Roles requiring Performance Optimization are concentrated in: serving infrastructure (49%), agents (31%), application (8%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.
Job postings that mention Performance Optimization most often also require: Machine Learning, Python, Computer Architecture, Production ML Systems, Software Engineering.
72 AI roles requiring this skill.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Performance Engineer, Inference Systems | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| OpenAI | Software Engineer, Productivity - Inference Runtime | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| OpenAI | Design Verification, Forward Deployed Engineering | AI Frontier | 7 | L4 |
| OpenAI | Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| OpenAI | ChatGPT Performance Engineer | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| Lila Sciences | Director, Data Platform Engineering | AI Frontier | 7 | L0 |
| OpenAI | Software Engineer, Workload Enablement | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| OpenAI | Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| Cohere | Product Manager, Platform Experience & Developer Product | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| Perplexity | UK Internship Program | AI Frontier | 7 | L3 |
| Harvey | Engineering Manager, Product Engineering | AI Frontier | 7 | L4 |
| xAI | Member of Technical Staff - Sandbox Service | AI Frontier | 7 | L4 |