Runtime Engineer

Machine intelligence will soon take over humanity’s role in knowledge-keeping and creation. What started in the mid-1990s as the gradual off-loading of knowledge and decision making to search engines will be rapidly replaced by vast neural networks - with all knowledge compressed into their artificial neurons. Unlike organic life, machine intelligence, built within silicon, needs protocols to coordinate and grow. And, like nature, these protocols should be open, permissionless, and neutral. Starting with compute hardware, the Gensyn protocol networks together the core resources required for machine intelligence to flourish alongside human intelligence.

As a Runtime Engineer at Gensyn, your responsibilities would see you:

• Design, build and maintain a runtime capable of executing and optimally scheduling custom ML kernels in a heterogeneous environment
• Design, build, and maintain the Gensyn runtime environment
• Work closely with engineers building our compiler and distributed training frameworks in order to ensure reproducibility of ML operations
• Communicate design decisions and specifications to the broader Gensyn team
  
  

Competencies

Must have

• Experience building an ML runtime
• Experience building and profiling highly-parallel, low-level systems, including a deep knowledge of memory management techniques
• Experience with infrastructure / distributed systems

Should have

• Experience working with system kernels and drivers
• Experience in a venture backed start-up environment
• Experience working with ML accelerators such as GPUs

Nice to have

• Technical machine learning experience
• Experience with MLIR
• Experience building and/or profiling ML kernels

Compensation / Benefits:

• Competitive salary + share of equity and token pool
• Fully remote work - we hire between the West Coast (PT) and Central Europe (CET) time zones
• Relocation Assistance - available for those that would like to relocate after being hired (anywhere from PST through CET time zones)
• 4x all expenses paid company retreats around the world, per year
• Whatever equipment you need
• Paid sick leave
• Private health, vision, and dental insurance - including spouse/dependents [🇺🇸 only]
  
  

Our Principles

Autonomy

• Don’t ask for permission - we have a constraint culture, not a permission culture
• Claim ownership of any work stream and set its goals/deadlines, rather than waiting to be assigned work or relying on job specs
• Push & pull context on your work rather than waiting for information from others and assuming people know what you’re doing
• No middle managers - we don’t (and will likely never) have middle managers

Focus

• Small team - misalignment and politics scale super-linearly with team size. Small protocol teams rival much larger traditional teams
• Thin protocol - build and design thinly
• Reject waste - guard the company’s time, rather than wasting it in meetings without clear purpose/focus, or bikeshedding

Reject mediocrity

• Give direct feedback to everyone immediately rather than avoiding unpopularity, expecting things to improve naturally, or trading short-term pain for extreme long-term pain
• Embrace an extreme learning rate rather than assuming limits to your ability/knowledge
• No quit - push to the final outcome, despite any barriers