Software Engineer - BIS
As a Software Engineer on the Inference Stack team, you will build the distributed runtime that powers large-scale LLM inference. This role involves working across the stack, from developer experience to low-level infrastructure, and owning systems in production.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop infrastructure and orchestration systems for deploying and managing large-scale distributed LLM inference
- Work across the stack, from customer-facing features to low-level infrastructure components
- Build platform capabilities related to routing, autoscaling, scheduling, observability, and runtime management
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of our inference stack
- Collaborate closely with Model Performance engineers to make new inference optimizations broadly available to customers and easy to configure
- Help define best practices around testing, release automation, benchmarking, and operational excellence
- Debug complex production systems spanning Kubernetes, distributed runtimes, networking, and GPU workloads
- Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs balancing performance, reliability, operational simplicity, and developer experience
- Own projects end-to-end: from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration based on customer feedback
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Strong background in distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Experience building and operating production systems where reliability, latency, and scale are first-class concerns
- Strong sense of developer experience: you think about how systems are used, not just how they work
- Motivated and willing to learn new languages, frameworks, and systems as needed
- Ability to debug complex systems across multiple layers of the stack
- Genuine interest in inference engineering. You don’t need to have hands on experience but are willing to learn
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
BONUS
- Experience with Kubernetes, including concepts like operators and custom resources
- Prior work on Dynamo, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or similar inference frameworks
- Experience with distributed scheduling, autoscaling, or service orchestration
- Experience operating GPU workloads in production
- Familiarity with observability tooling, CI/CD systems, or release automation
- Experience contributing to open-source infrastructure or ML systems
BENEFITS
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- Company-facilitated 401(k)
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
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