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ML Systems Engineer, ML Acceleration

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  • Profile training to find bottlenecks in data loading, gradients, and communication

  • Apply kernel fusion, sharding, and tiling to cut training step time

  • Optimize distributed training pipelines with PyTorch Distributed

  • Design and maintain high-performance GPU kernels in Triton or CUDA

  • Optimize data loading pipelines to maximize training throughput

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Utilize profiling tools (e.g., Nsight, PyTorch Profiler) to identify bottlenecks in data loading, gradient computation, and communication
Implement optimizations like kernel fusion, sharding, and tiling to improve step time
Optimize distributed training pipelines using frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed
Design and maintain high-performance GPU kernels in Triton or CUDA
Optimize robust data loading pipelines that maximize training throughput

What you’ll bring

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  • Strong proficiency in Python
  • Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch
  • Experience optimizing model execution during training and inference
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach
Qualification wording
Strong proficiency in Python
Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch
Experience optimizing machine learning model execution during training and inference
Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a bias for action and a data-driven approach to technical challenges
Education & alternatives
What we're looking for: - Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python.
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- Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python. - ML Frameworks: Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch.
What you'll be doing: - Performance Profiling & Optimization: Utilize profiling tools (e.g., Nsight, PyTorch Profiler) to identify bottlenecks in data loading, gradient computation, and communication. Implement optimizations like kernel fusion, sharding, and tiling to improve step time. - Distributed Training: Optimize distributed training pipelines using frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed.
- Performance Profiling & Optimization: Utilize profiling tools (e.g., Nsight, PyTorch Profiler) to identify bottlenecks in data loading, gradient computation, and communication. Implement optimizations like kernel fusion, sharding, and tiling to improve step time. - Distributed Training: Optimize distributed training pipelines using frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed. - Kernel Development: Design and maintain high-performance GPU kernels in Triton or CUDA for state-of-the-art ML workloads.
- Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python. - ML Frameworks: Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch. - ML Knowledge: Experience optimizing machine learning model execution during training and inference, alongside a strong understanding of fundamental machine learning concepts, architectures, and processes.

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Demand for ML Engineer roles

New ML Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 12% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.

Weekly new ML Engineer postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of October 26. The fewest in a week was 625, the most 1,094, and the latest week had 876.
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About the role

We file this job under ML Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

ML engineers put machine learning models into products. They write the code that trains, ships, serves and monitors models so a recommendation or prediction works for real users.

Postings ask for strong Python and software engineering, a framework such as PyTorch, cloud services, and more and more often experience with large language models.

A data scientist often works out which model to build; an ML engineer makes it run reliably in production.

US government figures for computer and information research scientists

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$140,300
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
21.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for ML engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, computer and information research scientists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1221.

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Mission Summary:

We are looking for a Machine Learning Systems Engineer to join our ML Acceleration team. In this role, you will be responsible for the core systems that enable our researchers to train frontier models at scale, focusing obsessively on speed, cost, reliability, and throughput. You will work at the intersection of machine learning research and high-performance systems engineering. Your work will directly impact our ability to scale large-scale distributed model training and reduce the time-to-convergence for our next generation of models.

What you'll be doing:

  • Performance Profiling & Optimization: Utilize profiling tools (e.g., Nsight, PyTorch Profiler) to identify bottlenecks in data loading, gradient computation, and communication. Implement optimizations like kernel fusion, sharding, and tiling to improve step time.
  • Distributed Training: Optimize distributed training pipelines using frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed.
  • Kernel Development: Design and maintain high-performance GPU kernels in Triton or CUDA for state-of-the-art ML workloads.
  • Data Pipeline Engineering: Optimize robust data loading pipelines that maximize training throughput.

What we're looking for:

  • Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python.
  • ML Frameworks: Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch.
  • ML Knowledge: Experience optimizing machine learning model execution during training and inference, alongside a strong understanding of fundamental machine learning concepts, architectures, and processes.
  • Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a bias for action and a data-driven approach to technical challenges.

 

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Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

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We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.  

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

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