# Staff Kernel Optimzation Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

200 staff kernel optimzation engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA. Top employers: OpenAI, Astranis, Anthropic, and 5 more. Salaries from $30K–$500K.

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**Engineering Manager** at Inferact
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 200K–400K/yr
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**Systems Engineer, Hypervisor and Kernel** at Workers IO
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US) | FULL_TIME | USD 80K–250K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff, GPU Compiler** at SF Tensor
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 285K–315K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff, GPU Kernels** at SF Tensor
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 285K–315K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff** at Morph
San Francisco, CA, US | FULL_TIME | USD 180K–350K/yr
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**TPU Kernel Engineer** at Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | FULL_TIME | USD 280K–850K/yr
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**Industrial Software Engineer** at HERA
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US) | FULL_TIME | USD 150K–200K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineering** at SF Tensor
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 225K–275K/yr
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**Member of Technical Staff, Sandbox Infrastructure** at SF Tensor
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 275K–315K/yr
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**Member of Mathematical Staff** at SF Tensor
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 225K–315K/yr
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**Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P** at OpenAI
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 381K–485K/yr
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**Platform Security Engineering, Operating Systems** at Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | FULL_TIME | USD 320K–405K/yr
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**Staff Engineer** at LiteLLM
San Francisco | FULL_TIME | USD 240K–270K/yr
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**Senior Site Reliability Engineer** at Material Security
Remote | Remote | FULL_TIME | USD 213K–229K/yr
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**Founding Engineer** at ProvenMetal
San Francisco, CA, US | FULL_TIME | USD 100K–200K/yr
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