I don't think a CUDA engineer, or a researcher working on optimization or distributed computing should get the same recognition as a Chief of anything. But dare I say that writing optimized code to run on clusters is just as hard as coming up with a new deep learning architecture? Actually having done both, it is harder, at least for me.

The authors of "Attention is all you need" got all the recognition. The people who worked on scaling deep learning models to huge clusters got no recognition. But both were just as instrumental to the ultimate success of LLMs.