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Member of Technical Staff - RL Inference

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2 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize the inference stack for RL workloads ranging from small-scale ablations to production training runs.
  • Analyze, profile, and resolve performance bottlenecks in large-scale RL systems.
  • Collaborate with the modeling team to efficiently implement novel RL techniques and algorithms.

Requirements

  • Experience building, debugging, and optimizing the efficiency of large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with LLM inference.
  • Proficiency in Python, C++, or Rust and frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or CUDA.
  • Strong knowledge of quantization and numerics in LLM inference and training is preferred.
  • Experience developing inference engines such as SGLang or vLLM is preferred.
  • Willingness to solve complex problems across all levels of the stack.
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