Machine Learning Performance Engineer

Jane Street • New York, New York, United States

H1B Sponsor full-time mid Competitive

Job Description

We are looking for an engineer with experience in low-level systems programming and optimisation to join our growing ML team.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/machine-learning/">Machine learning</a> is a critical pillar of Jane Street's global business. Our ever-evolving trading environment serves as a unique, rapid-feedback platform for ML experimentation, allowing us to incorporate new ideas with relatively little friction.
Your part here is optimising the performance of our models – both training and inference. We care about efficient large-scale training, low-latency inference in real-time systems and high-throughput inference in research. Part of this is improving straightforward CUDA, but the interesting part needs a whole-systems approach, including storage systems, networking and host- and GPU-level considerations. Zooming in, we also want to ensure our platform makes sense even at the lowest level – is all that throughput actually goodput? Does loading that vector from the L2 cache really take that long?
If you’ve never thought about a career in finance, you’re in good company. Many of us were in the same position before working here. If you have a curious mind and a passion for solving interesting problems, we have a feeling you’ll fit right in.&nbsp;
There’s no fixed set of skills, but here are some of the things we’re looking for:
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<li>An understanding of modern ML techniques and toolsets</li>
<li>The experience and systems knowledge required to debug a training run’s performance end to end</li>
<li>Low-level GPU knowledge of PTX, SASS, warps, cooperative groups, Tensor Cores and the memory hierarchy</li>
<li>Debugging and optimisation experience using tools like CUDA GDB, NSight Systems, NSight Computesight-systems and nsight-compute</li>
<li>Library knowledge of Triton, CUTLASS, CUB, Thrust, cuDNN and cuBLAS</li>
<li>Intuition about the latency and throughput characteristics of CUDA graph launch, tensor core arithmetic, warp-level synchronization and asynchronous memory loads</li>
<li>Background in Infiniband, RoCE, GPUDirect, PXN, rail optimisation and NVLink, and how to use these networking technologies to link up GPU clusters</li>
<li>An understanding of the collective algorithms supporting distributed GPU training in NCCL or MPI</li>
<li>An inventive approach and the willingness to ask hard questions about whether we're taking the right approaches and using the right tools</li>
<li>Fluent in English</li>
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