Senior Software Engineer - Model Performance
Inference, San Francisco
The role
You will be responsible for making our inference stack as fast and efficient as possible. Your work spans from implementing known optimization techniques to experimenting with novel approaches, always with the goal of serving models faster and cheaper at scale.
Your north star is inference performance: latency, throughput, cost efficiency, and how quickly we can bring new model architectures into production. You'll work across the full inference stack—from CUDA kernels to serving frameworks—to find and eliminate bottlenecks. This role reports directly to the founding team. You'll have the autonomy, a large compute budget, and technical support to push the limits of what's possible in model serving.
What you will do
- Implement and productionize optimization techniques including quantization, speculative decoding, KV cache optimization, continuous batching, and LoRA serving
- Deep dive into inference frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM) and underlying libraries to debug and improve performance