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Helix AI Engineer, Training Performance
Figure AI INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose, CA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 22 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Figure AI INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “AI TRAINING INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER” (Software Developers) in CA: $200k–$227k, median $225k. Most were filed at wage level II (67%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 22 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Figure's vision is to deploy autonomous humanoids at a global scale. Our Helix team is looking for an experienced AI Training Performance Engineer to take our model training to the next level. This role is focused on improving distributed training frameworks for large scale model training, optimizing GPU kernels, exploring the relative gains of different accelerator types and co-designing our models to maximize utilization of our hardware. Responsibilities: • Optimize training performance for a 100B+ parameter models across 100k+ GPUs. • Collaborate with the broader team on accelerator choice, cluster topology, scheduling, and hardware procurement decisions to inform future scaling. • Write and optimize custom kernels (Triton/CUDA). • Build tooling and dashboards for continuous performance monitoring, regression detection, and root-cause analysis across training jobs. • Optimize data loading and preprocessing pipelines so I/O never gates the accelerators. • Improve checkpointing, fault tolerance, and elastic restart so large jobs recover quickly from node failures without losing significant wall-clock time. • Partner with researchers to co-design model architectures and training recipes that are performant at scale (e.g., activation checkpointing strategies, mixed precision, sequence packing). • Extend and contribute to kernel compilers (e.g., Triton, Gluon) to improve iteration speed and enable targeting of custom/non-NVIDIA accelerators. • Build and extend agentic systems that automatically generate, benchmark, and iterate on custom kernels. • Evaluate emerging accelerator architectures (AMD, TPU, SRAM-based ASICs, and other novel hardware) for fit with our training workloads, and lead proof-of-concept ports/benchmarks. • Explore different model/data parallelisms (FSDP, context parallel, expert parallel, etc.) to determine optimal configuration per model size. Requirements: • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or a related field. • 3+ years in AI performance engineering, with significant time leading large-scale performance improvement projects. • Deep understanding of GPU architecture and performance characteristics (memory bandwidth, compute-bound vs. memory-bound ops, occupancy). • Proficiency with profiling tools (Nsight Systems/Compute, PyTorch Profiler, HTA, or similar) and ability to translate traces into concrete optimizations. • Solid grasp of collective communication (NCCL) and modern networking concepts (RDMA, NVLink, InfiniBand/RoCE, topology-aware placement). • Strong Python and CUDA/C++ skills; comfortable reading and modifying framework internals. • Experience debugging performance regressions and instability at scale (stragglers, hangs, OOMs, numerical divergence). • Experience defining and reasoning about hardware-efficiency metrics (MFU/HFU) and using them to drive optimization priorities. Bonus Qualifications: • Experience with heterogeneous or multi-datacenter training setups and cross-cluster orchestration. • Contributions to open-source ML systems projects (PyTorch, Megatron-LM, vLLM, DeepSpeed, JAX, etc.). • Exposure to non-NVIDIA accelerators (AMD GPUs, TPU/Trainium/Inferentia, or custom silicon) and heterogeneous fleet management. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 to $400,000 per year. The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skil