# Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer- Model Inference

**Company:** [Abridge](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/abridge)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $221k – $260k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Nvidia Triton Server, vLLM, Trt-Llm, Terraform, Ansible, CUDA, GPU, Distributed Systems, APIs
**Posted:** 2025-08-25

> Builds and optimizes scalable ML inference infrastructure using Kubernetes and GPU resources to deploy production AI models with low latency. Collaborates with ML research and product teams on model serving, orchestration, and compute efficiency.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Design, deploy and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters for AI model inference and training
- Develop, optimize, and maintain ML model serving infrastructure, ensuring high-performance and low-latency.
- Collaborate with ML and product teams to scale backend infrastructure for AI-driven products, focusing on model deployment, throughput optimization, and compute efficiency.
- Optimize compute-heavy workflows and enhance GPU utilization for ML workloads.
- Build a robust model API orchestration system
- Collaborate with leadership to define and implement strategies for scaling infrastructure as the company grows, ensuring long-term efficiency and performance.

## What You’ll Bring
- Strong experience in building and deploying machine learning models in production environments.
- Deep understanding of container orchestration and distributed systems architecture
- Expertise in Kubernetes administration, including custom resource definitions, operators, and cluster management
- Experience developing APIs and managing distributed systems for both batch and real-time workloads
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interface between research and product engineering

## Ideally, You Have
- Expertise with model serving frameworks such as NVIDIA Triton Server, VLLM, TRT-LLM and so on.
- Expertise with ML toolchains such as PyTorch, Tensorflow or distributed training and inference libraries.
- Familiarity with GPU cluster management and CUDA optimization
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps practices
- Experience with container registries, image optimization, and multi-stage builds for ML workloads
- Experience orchestrating across ASR models or LLM models for building various GenAI applications

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