Arago

ML Systems Engineer — Inference Acceleration

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2 months ago
Paris, FranceSenior

Responsibilities

  • Analyze AI workloads to identify kernel-, runtime-, memory-, and system-level bottlenecks on Arago’s accelerator.
  • Develop and optimize custom kernels, fused operators, and execution strategies to maximize device utilization.
  • Design model and operator mappings across multiple devices, including communication and synchronization strategies.
  • Develop inference-serving techniques including continuous batching, paged KV caches, prefix/context caching, chunked prefill, and prefill/decode interleaving or disaggregation.
  • Build profiling, benchmarking, and performance-analysis infrastructure for kernels, full models, and serving workloads.
  • Collaborate with hardware, compiler, and runtime teams to co-design software abstractions and influence future hardware features.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in high-performance ML inference, GPU or accelerator programming, or ML systems engineering.
  • Deep understanding of computer architecture, accelerator and GPU execution models, memory hierarchies, parallelism, and performance bottlenecks.
  • Experience developing and optimizing custom kernels using CUDA, Triton, ROCm/HIP, or equivalent low-level programming environments.
  • Experience with operator fusion, tiling, scheduling, data movement optimization, graph execution, and profiling compute- and memory-bound workloads.
  • Strong understanding of distributed model execution, including tensor, pipeline, sequence, or expert parallelism and communication/computation overlap.
  • Hands-on experience with inference-serving systems such as vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or equivalent, including KV-cache management, continuous batching, paged attention, and prefill/decode scheduling.
  • Strong C++ and Python skills and comfort working with actively evolving compiler, runtime, kernel, and accelerator abstractions.
  • Proficient English language skills.
  • Exposure to or experience with MLIR and MLIR dialects is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Competitive cash compensation based on location, experience, and comparable team-member pay; no specific amount is stated.
  • Meaningful stock option plan, included in the majority of full-time offers.
  • Healthcare coverage with family-friendly options, pension contributions, professional development support, and 25 days of PTO in addition to public holidays.
  • Ownership of a key technical domain with opportunities for vertical and horizontal growth based on performance and individual drive.

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About Arago

201-500 employees

Arago Consulting delivers HR and spend-management solutions as an implementation and integration partner for SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Concur. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Paris, it provides consulting, deployment, and support services for Core HR, talent management, performance, and learning across international clients. The company is privately held and works with enterprises moving HCM processes to the cloud.

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