Software Engineer, Systems ML - Frameworks / Compilers / Kernels

In this role, you will be a member of the MTIA (Meta Training & Inference Accelerator) Software team and part of the bigger industry-leading PyTorch AI framework organization. MTIA Software Team has been developing a comprehensive AI Compiler strategy that delivers a highly flexible platform to train & serve new DL/ML model architectures, combined with auto-tuned high performance for production environments across specialized hardware architectures. The compiler stack, DL graph optimizations, and kernel authoring for specific hardware, directly impacts performance and deployment velocity of both AI training and inference platforms at Meta.

You will be working on one of the core areas such as PyTorch framework components, AI compiler and runtime, high-performance kernels and tooling to accelerate machine learning workloads on the current & next generation of MTIA AI hardware platforms. You will work closely with AI researchers to analyze deep learning models and lower them efficiently on MTIA hardware. You will also partner with hardware design teams to develop compiler optimizations for high performance. You will apply software development best practices to design features, optimization, and performance tuning techniques. You will gain valuable experience in developing machine learning compiler frameworks and will help in driving next generation hardware software codesign for AI domain specific problems.

Responsibilities:

• Development of SW stack with one of the following core focus areas: AI frameworks, compiler stack, high performance kernel development and acceleration onto next generation of hardware architectures.
• Contribute to the development of the industry-leading PyTorch AI framework core compilers to support new state of the art inference and training AI hardware accelerators and optimize their performance.
• Analyze deep learning networks, develop & implement compiler optimization algorithms.
• Collaborating with AI research scientists to accelerate the next generation of deep learning models such as Recommendation systems, Generative AI, Computer vision, NLP etc.
• Performance tuning and optimizations of deep learning framework & software components.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proven C/C++ programming skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in AI framework development or accelerating deep learning models on hardware architectures.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field with significant experience in AI framework development or accelerating deep learning models on hardware architectures.
• Knowledge of GPU, CPU, or AI hardware accelerator architectures.
• Experience working with frameworks like PyTorch, Caffe2, TensorFlow, ONNX, TensorRT
• Experience with CUDA programming, OpenMP / OpenCL programming or AI hardware accelerator kernel programming.
• Experience in accelerating libraries on AI hardware, similar to cuBLAS, cuDNN, CUTLASS, HIP, ROCm etc.
• Experience with compiler optimizations such as loop optimizations, vectorization, parallelization, hardware specific optimizations such as SIMD.
• Experience with MLIR, LLVM, IREE, XLA, TVM, Halide is a plus.
• Experience in developing training and inference framework components.
• Experience in system performance optimizations such as runtime analysis of latency, memory bandwidth, I/O access, compute utilization analysis and associated tooling development.