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Our Beliefs

We believe AI progress should move at the speed of ideas.

That efficiency, not excess, will define the next era of breakthroughs. That great engineering is both creative and precise. And that collaboration, curiosity, and ambition are the engines of real progress.

At yasp, we challenge assumptions, embrace complexity, and build what others say can’t be done.

Why join yasp?

Meaningful work

You'll contribute directly to projects that matter — where users, clients, or communities see real
benefit.

Ownership & Autonomy

We give you the space to lead, experiment, and make decisions; we don't micromanage.

Growth Culture

You won't be static. We support your learning with coaching, resources, and exposure to new challenges.

Stable & Ethical

We operate with transparency, accountability, and financial responsibility. No surprises, no hollow promises.

Belonging & Diversity

We believe diversity of background, thought, and experience makes us stronger. We strive for an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.

Long-Term Vision

We plan and invest for the long run — in the business, in our people, and in our community.

Values

How we work, think, and grow together.

Excellence

Excellence- Great people drive great outcomes, and the right tools make them unstoppable.- We stay curious, push limits, and keep ourselves on the cutting edge.- Good isn't our finish line - it's where we start. We always reach higher.

Entrepreneurship

- We move fast and take ownership.- “Done” beats “perfect”, because progress creates momentum.- We walk the talk and focus on creating real business value, because great ideas matter most when they make a difference.

Authenticity

- We believe trust is built through openness - saying things early, saying them straight.- We leave ego at the door and choose empathy, decency, and accountability instead.- First impressions matter, but integrity lasts the longest.

Excellence

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Entrepreneurship

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Authenticity

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Product Insights

"The hardest part of this problem isn't writing fast kernels. It's making sure every single output is correct. We validate every kernel against PyTorch reference outputs on real silicon before anything ships. When a customer deploys a Kronos binary to a safety-critical device or Gaia hands back an optimized model for production inference, the performance they measured is the performance they get. That's the bar. We don't ship until it clears."

"Most optimization tools encode what humans already know into rules. We took the opposite approach. Our agents explore strategies that no engineer would try manually because the search space is too large and the iteration cost is too high. They generate kernel candidates, profile them on physical hardware, throw out what doesn't work, and keep what does. The system doesn't just apply known optimizations. It discovers new ones, and every discovery makes the next compilation faster."

“Every kernel we validate goes into KernelDB. Every future compilation starts from a richer starting point. Our first customer compilations were the most expensive. The cost curve points down with every customer we add. That's not a pricing strategy, it's a structural advantage that gets wider the longer we run."

"Teams were told portability meant giving up performance. We proved that's false. The same PyTorch model, zero code changes, ran 67% cheaper on alternative hardware than on NVIDIA — and faster in absolute terms. yasp optimizes, deploys, and exits. No runtime, no vendor SDK, no lock-in. Nothing left behind."

"Most teams come to us with the same story: the model works, but getting it onto the right hardware takes longer than training it did. Kronos gives them a validated binary for edge. Gaia finds optimizations their team didn't have time to look for in cloud. One pipeline, any chip, and they stop choosing hardware around their tooling and start choosing it around the problem."

"The search space for optimal AI execution is too large for any human or any static compiler to navigate. So we don't try to. Our agents write hardware-specific kernels, run every candidate on real silicon, and iterate until the output is verified correct. On one enterprise LLM they caught an algebraic equivalence no static tool would ever find and cut a single layer from 22.6ms to 0.65ms — a 6.25x speedup, every output identical."

"We spent years building AI infrastructure and kept hitting the same wall: a model that works everywhere in theory but only runs where the vendor lets it. yasp is our answer to that. You choose the hardware that's right for the job, our agents handle the optimization and deployment automatically, and the model runs because nothing stands in the way. You choose the hardware. yasp handles the rest."

Open Positions

Research Engineer - AI for Code

yasp is pioneering the future of software development with a compiler that leverages agentic AI for advanced optimization and code generation. We are looking for a visionary Research Engineer - AI for Code to join our team and drive the core innovation that will define the next generation of our technology.

We don’t draw boundaries between research and engineering. We are creative thinkers and relentless prototypers who live at the bleeding edge of AI research and engineering. Together, we explore, invent, and ship novel technology that pushes beyond the state of the art for accelerating deep learning models.

What You’ll Do:

  • Research, build, tune, and ship novel agentic AI and LLM based methods for complex problem-solving, planning, and code synthesis.
  • Evaluate the efficacy of AI driven compilation and optimization via benchmarking across diverse datasets, ensuring robust real-world performance.
  • Stay up to date with the publication landscape (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), open-source projects, and industry trends to identify the way to move forward.
  • Identify, steer and apply effective agent patterns, prompt-engineering and post-training strategies with an experiment-driven scientific mindset.
  • Develop clean production ready code, tooling and automations with an engineering mindset.
  • Work with a talented team towards breakthroughs in AI for code.

What We're Looking For:

  • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science/Maths/Physics with a focus on AI/ML, or
    equivalent practical experience.
  • Exceptional prior work in AI/ML, ideally involving LLMs or Agents to solve a complex task.
  • Solid understanding of machine learning principles and the ability to apply them to new domains.
  • Fluent engineering and strong coding abilities (Python, PyTorch/ TensorFlow/ Jax, agentic AI frameworks, LLM tooling and APIs, Docker, GCP/AWS/Azure, software development best practices).
  • Passion for good scientific practice, blending clean formal thinking and good
    communication with exacting engineering.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with fine-tuning LLMs and Reinforcement Learning (RL), especially in the context of tool use or optimization.
  • Familiarity with compiler design, program synthesis, or code generation principles (MLIR, TVM, LLVM).
  • Experience with GPU accelerated kernels (e.g. CUDA, OpenCL, ROCm) for Nvidia and AMD GPUs.
  • Contributions to major open-source AI frameworks or research projects.

Perks and Benefits:

  • Competitive salary.
  • Comprehensive health benefits (including dental).
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
  • Flexible work hours.
  • Dynamic and collaborative work environment.
  • Cutting-edge software and hardware platforms.

Hybrid (Offices in Munich, DE & Montréal, CA)

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Intern Researcher - Agentic ML Compiler

Location: Hybrid, Montreal Canada

About Us:

yasp is pioneering the future of software development with a compiler that leverages agentic AI for advanced optimization and code generation. We are looking for an Intern Researcher - Agentic ML Compiler to join our team and help drive the core innovation that will define the next generation of our technology.

We don’t draw boundaries between research and engineering. We are creative thinkers and relentless prototypers who live at the bleeding edge of AI research and engineering. Together, we explore, invent, and ship novel technology that pushes beyond the state of the art for accelerating deep learning models.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop novel agentic AI and LLM-based methods to optimize kernels for machine learning models.
  • Evaluate the performance of AI driven ML compilation techniques via rigorous benchmarking.
  • Stay up to date with the publication landscape, open-source projects, and industry trends.
  • Contribute to writing research papers for publication in top AI conferences.
  • Work with a talented team towards breakthroughs in AI for ML compilation.

Requirements:

  • Master’s or PhD student in Computer Science/Maths/Physics with a focus on AI/ML, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Exceptional prior work in AI/ML, ideally involving LLMs or agents to solve complex tasks.
  • Strong engineering and coding abilities (PyTorch, agentic AI frameworks, LLM post-training frameworks, software development best practices).
  • Passion for good scientific practice, blending clean formal thinking and good communication with exacting engineering.

Preferred:

  • Experience post-training LLMs using SFT and RL, especially as part of an AI agent.
  • Knowledge of ML compiler principles including intermediate representations, operator fusion, and custom CUDA or Triton kernel generation.
  • Previous publications in leading AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML).

Perks and Benefits:

  • Competitive salary.
  • Comprehensive health benefits (including dental).
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
  • Flexible work hours.
  • Dynamic and collaborative work environment.
  • Cutting-edge software and hardware platforms.

Hybrid (Montréal, CA)

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General Application

Hybrid: Offices in Munich & Montreal

Don't see a role that fits? Send us your profile anyway.

yasp is a deep-tech startup building an agentic AI compiler for advanced optimization and code generation. We are building toward Platformless AI Infrastructure: a future where AI runs anywhere, on any hardware, without platform or vendor lock-in.

We are growing across engineering, research, business, and operations. If you are excited by what we are building and think you could contribute, even in a role we have not posted yet, we want to hear from you.

How to Apply

Send us:

  • Your motivation on what you do and what excites you about yasp
  • Your CV or LinkedIn
  • Optional: links to things you have built, written, or shipped

Hybrid (Offices in Munich, DE & Montréal, CA)

Full-time

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