Senior Software Engineer, Accelerated Computing Runtime, Project Sunrise Orbital Data Centers

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the architecture and implementation of the on-board payload processing runtime for diverse, high-performance computational workloads.
• Integrate, configure, and optimize accelerator compute frameworks and libraries, including defining workload optimization strategies for our orbital hardware.
• Design and write the core system code from scratch for robust workload checkpointing and state persistence to handle planned and unplanned interruptions in connectivity.
• Define the API contract for job submission and results delivery, collaborating with the compute orchestration team to establish schemas, latency SLAs, and error-handling semantics.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive performance benchmark suite on reference hardware to characterize throughput, latency, and power tradeoffs for various representative workloads.

Job requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in high-performance computing (HPC), distributed systems engineering, or accelerator-focused software development.
• Direct, hands-on experience deploying and optimizing demanding, data-intensive applications on large-scale accelerated computing systems.
• Strong understanding of accelerator architecture (e.g., GPUs), utilization metrics, memory bandwidth management, and parallel programming models.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, particularly fault tolerance, consensus, and state management in environments with intermittent connectivity.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant experience.