# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Wafer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/wafer)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** C++, Python, Ai Inference, High-Performance Computing, Computing Kernels, Compilers, Inference Engines, Serving Infrastructure, AI Agents, Heterogeneous Clusters, Profiling, Benchmarking
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Build and operate high-performance inference systems across kernels, runtimes, serving infrastructure, and heterogeneous clusters while owning customer workloads in production. The role requires exceptional production engineering, customer-facing technical judgment, and the ability to solve ambiguous problems independently.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize high-performance computing kernels across inference engine internals and serving infrastructure.
- Develop AI agents for autonomous inference engineering.
- Design, deploy, and operate heterogeneous clusters across hardware vendors.
- Own customer accounts end to end, including scoping workloads, building proofs, operating production systems, and managing technical relationships.
- Conduct technical evaluations on customers’ workloads and explain benchmark methodology and results to engineering teams.
- Monitor and maintain production workloads, diagnosing and resolving latency and error-rate issues.
- Inform the product roadmap based on real-world workload behavior.

## Requirements
- Exceptional software engineering ability, with experience shipping and operating production systems.
- Ability to use profilers, read traces, and independently diagnose unfamiliar systems.
- Experience owning customer relationships and resolving technical problems for named accounts.
- Ability to communicate credibly with engineering and ML teams, defend benchmark methodology, and incorporate feedback.
- Ability to work independently on ambiguous, poorly specified problems and produce scoped solutions.

## Nice-to-haves
- Inference optimization experience.

## Compensation and Benefits
- $200,000–$300,000 base salary plus generous equity.
- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Daily lunch and dinner.
- Unlimited paid time off and parental leave.
- $1,000/month post-tax housing stipend for employees living within 0.5 miles of the office.
- Covered Uber/Waymo transportation to and from the office.
- Visa sponsorship available.

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