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MLOps Engineer, LLM Performance (Kernels, Profiling, Serving)

  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Intermediate

$90-120/hrAs published by the platform.

About this job

This job is an MLOps role on a generative AI team, focused on the performance side of large language model work. The engineer designs and reviews hard tasks on accelerator kernels, profiling, distributed debugging and inference serving, and writes clear technical feedback on solutions produced by others. It suits hands-on systems engineers with production experience in ML infrastructure, model serving or accelerator performance.

What you'll do

  • Design challenging tasks on kernels, profiling, debugging and inference serving, including problems that expose failures of frontier models.
  • Write accurate, well-structured solutions to these ML systems tasks.
  • Evaluate ML systems tasks and solutions and give clear written technical feedback.
  • Develop guidelines and rubrics for kernel optimization, profiler interpretation and serving trade-offs.

Requirements

PyTorchLLM
  • 2+ years of experience

Pay

$90-120/hr

Pay as published by the platform. It is not a guarantee of income or hours.

Location

Open to residents of: United States.

How to apply

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Source

Official posting: https://work.mercor.com/jobs/list_AAABoWUVTB6QpgVqdb5Nkon1/mlops-engineer-llm-performance-kernels-profiling-serving

Last checked on October 24, 2026.

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