Member of Technical Staff - Partner Inference Engineer
Boston • FullTime
Posted 7h ago
About the job
LiquidAI, spun out of MIT CSAIL, is building general-purpose AI systems designed for efficient operation across various deployment targets, from data centers to on-device hardware, prioritizing low latency, minimal memory usage, privacy, and reliability. We partner with enterprises in consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services. As a rapidly scaling company, we are seeking exceptional individuals to join our team. This role is crucial for proving our Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) on silicon, enabling them to unlock the full capabilities of GPUs, NPUs, and CPUs. You will be instrumental in lowering our models onto partner silicon, profiling their performance, and generating evidence for partners and their customers.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the partner device lab, including SoCs from major chipmakers.
- Lower LFMs onto partner silicon and profile speed, latency, power, and thermal performance.
- Collaborate directly with partner customer engineers to co-create demos and benchmark narratives.
- Present technical results to partners and demand-side buyers, highlighting LFM performance advantages.
- Identify and diagnose model and runtime performance gaps for the Edge Inference team.
- Contribute to runtime and model-level optimization where applicable.
Requirements
- Understanding of silicon architecture (NPU, GPU, CPU blocks on edge SoCs) and model lowering processes.
- Proven experience deploying and profiling ML models on at least one edge SoC family (e.g., Qualcomm Snapdragon, AMD Ryzen AI, Intel NPU).
- Working knowledge of at least one vendor lowering and runtime toolchain (e.g., Qualcomm AI Engine Direct, OpenVINO, ONNX Runtime).
- Experience with on-device performance measurement (latency, throughput, power, thermal).
- Comfortable presenting technical results to external engineers and commercial stakeholders.
- Ability to own ambiguity and design processes from scratch.
- Willingness to engage in partner-facing work and customer interactions.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Equity in a unicorn-stage company
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
- 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
- Unlimited PTO
- Company-wide Refill Days