Responsibilities
- Design and build ML platform orchestration capabilities involving Kubernetes Operators, container runtimes, and workload lifecycle management.
- Develop multi-tenant resource and quota systems with prioritization, preemption, fair sharing, elasticity, cross-cluster scheduling, resource pooling, and FinOps.
- Build lifecycle orchestration for online model serving, including model and image distribution, deployment, upgrades, rollback, autoscaling, multi-cluster operations, and disaster recovery.
- Develop serving orchestration and traffic management for disaggregated serving clusters, including topology-aware scheduling, KV Cache affinity, intelligent request routing, and QoS/SLA management.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, C++, or Python, with a foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Familiarity with Linux, operating systems, computer networks, concurrent programming, and distributed systems.
- Ability to investigate systems using source code, metrics, logs, profiling, and experiments, and to define measurements and validate improvements.
- Demonstrated ownership and collaboration through coursework, research, internships, open-source contributions, or other engineering projects.
- Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, container runtimes, resource scheduling, quota management, multi-tenant systems, FinOps, online services, gateways, traffic management, autoscaling, performance optimization, highly available distributed systems, GPU/NPU programming, model distribution, or inference performance analysis.
- Preferred model-serving experience includes vLLM, SGLang, Triton, KServe, or Ray Serve, or knowledge of KV Cache, continuous batching, prefill/decode disaggregation, or model parallelism.
- Open-source contributions to infrastructure projects such as Kubernetes, Volcano, Koordinator, or OpenKruise are preferred.
Benefits
- Internship program offering hands-on experience, industry exposure, and opportunities to apply knowledge to real-world challenges.
- Opportunities to explore career paths and participate in social events, learning programs, and development workshops with industry professionals.
- Applicants should state internship availability, including start and end dates, in their resume.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
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