Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Model Serving Platform

$216k - $270k Remote San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Posted 2mo ago

Job Location

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Tech Stack

Remote Work Policy

Fully remote

Categories

AI Infrastructure Engineer

About the job

As a Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will design and build platforms for scalable, reliable, and efficient serving of LLMs. Our platform powers cutting-edge research and production systems, supporting both internal and external use cases across various environments. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment, bridging research and engineering to deliver seamless experiences to our customers and accelerate innovation across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain fault-tolerant, high-performance systems for serving LLMs workloads at scale.
  • Build an internal platform to empower LLM capability discovery.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate and optimize models for production and research use cases.
  • Conduct architecture and design reviews to uphold best practices in system design and scalability.
  • Develop monitoring and observability solutions to ensure system health and performance.
  • Lead projects end-to-end, from requirements gathering to implementation, in a cross-functional environment.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building large-scale, high-performance backend systems.
  • Strong programming skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, C++).
  • Experience with LLM serving and routing fundamentals (e.g. rate limiting, token streaming, load balancing, budgets, etc.).
  • Experience with LLM capabilities and concepts such as reasoning, tool calling, prompt templates, etc.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
  • Proven ability to solve complex problems and work independently in fast-moving environments.

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and benefits.
  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage.
  • Retirement benefits.
  • A learning and development stipend.
  • Generous PTO.
  • Commuter stipend.

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