Optimization Engineer (C/C++)

Location: San Jose, California or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Salary: $130,000–$200,000 per year, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Company

hirify.global is developing an energy-efficient general-purpose processor for continuous AI/ML computing in IoT devices.

What you will do

• Optimize and benchmark applications, libraries, and kernels for Efficient’s programmable processor, the Fabric.
• Own complex, performance-critical kernel code and push compute performance to the limits of the platform.
• Work closely with compiler and embedded engineering teams to provide feedback on compiler performance and kernel benchmarks.
• Contribute to optimized libraries and applications for customer use cases.
• Analyze and maximize software performance on a dataflow architecture.

Requirements

• Hands-on software development experience working closely with hardware, including exposure to a RISC, DSP, or GPU platform.
• Ability to write, debug, and maintain low-level systems code in C/C++.
• Experience analyzing software performance and collaborating across multiple engineering teams.
• Active use of AI tools to generate, optimize, and debug code.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Experience with CUDA, HIP, or other parallel programming models.
• Exposure to PTX, LLVM IR, MLIR, or similar low-level programming interfaces.
• Expertise in linear algebra, machine learning, image or video processing, signal or audio processing, SDR, real-time programming, or robotics.
• Background in performance profiling, benchmark design, or comparative hardware analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity.
• 401(k) match and company-paid benefits.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexibility and support for personal and professional development.