Trainium Kernel Expert - AI Trainer
$70 - $90 per hourMercor
Job Description
Job Description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .
Position: Trainium (NKI) Kernel Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$90/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Evaluate the quality, correctness, and hardware-appropriateness of Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) development tasks for training and evaluating AI models.
- Assess CUDA→NKI migration fidelity and Trainium-specific performance-optimization quality.
- Review cross-platform numerical-correctness standards and provide clear, rubric-based feedback.
- Collaborate with AI research teams to ensure consistency and coverage across datasets.
- Work independently and asynchronously to improve AI model performance .
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 2+ years of experience developing or optimizing kernels using NKI targeting AWS Trainium/Inferentia2 hardware.
- Strong understanding of NKI-specific development patterns and memory-hierarchy management.
- Experience assessing CUDA→NKI migration quality.
- Familiarity with Trainium-specific performance profiling.
- Experience defining or evaluating cross-platform numerical-correctness standards.
Preferred
- Experience with AWS Neuron SDK , Neuron Compiler internals , or contributions to NKI kernel libraries.
- Prior CUDA or Triton kernel development.
- Familiarity with Trainium hardware specifications.
- Experience benchmarking ML training workloads on Trn1/Trn2 instances.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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- Submit form
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