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With customers at its core, Stack AV is focused on revolutionizing the way businesses transport goods, designing solutions to alleviate long-standing issues that have plagued the trucking industry including driver shortages, lagging efficiency in uptime per vehicle, overarching safety concerns, high operating costs, and elevated emission levels. By building safe and efficient autonomous trucking solutions, Stack AV is creating better and smarter supply chains for its partners, improving business outcomes for its customers, delivering goods to end-users faster, and ultimately moving the trucking industry forward.

About the Team:  

The training and deployment team, part of the ML Platform org at Stack AV, is responsible for the platform that helps the AI team to build models, optimize, test, and deploy them on the autonomous vehicles. 

Position Overview: 

We are seeking an experienced, visionary, and hands-on technical lead for our ML acceleration team. This role will be responsible for designing the architecture and leading a team to automate the optimization and deployment on complex ML models (including transformer-based models such as VLM models) for all the next-gen AI Autonomous Vehicle applications in the company. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of GPUs and optimization, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to drive technical excellence.

Team Responsibilities:

• Analyze and profile ML models to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Use OSS tooling to enhance our platform to enable ML engineers to profile models and optimize them (e.g., through quantization).
• Automate the process of exporting the model to optimized format (e.g., TensorRT) and deploying them.
• Implement optimizations using CUDA, Triton, and custom kernels.
• Collaborate with ML researchers to balance model accuracy and speed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Tech Leadership: Lead efforts within the team as well as cross-team projects related to model optimization and deployment.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design appropriate solutions.
• Technology Stack: Stay updated with the latest technologies and trends in ML inference and ML accelerators.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in models.
• Promote Engineering Excellence: Set a culture of engineering excellence within the team and work closely with the management and customer teams to balance between speed of delivery and quality of engineering artifacts.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in GPU programming and optimization.
• Technical Skills:
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python
• Proven experience in GPU programming and optimization
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks, especially PyTorch
• CUDA programming
• Triton language for GPU kernels
• PyTorch optimization techniques
• TensorRT implementation
• ONNX model conversion and deployment
• Custom GPU kernel development
• Deep understanding of GPU architectures and performance optimization
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead and mentor a team, manage projects, and drive technical initiatives.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We believe that diverse teams produce the best ideas and outcomes. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation across gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and identity.

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