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Software Engineer - Training/Inference (C++)

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7 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $440k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement distributed model-serving infrastructure for load balancing, auto-scaling, batch scheduling, and global KV caching.
  • Optimize model inference latency, throughput, reliability, and tail latency under production workloads.
  • Benchmark, fine-tune, and accelerate inference engines, including GPU kernel and code-generation work.
  • Develop tools to trace, replay, diagnose, and fix issues across orchestration and GPU-kernel layers.
  • Create CI/CD infrastructure for endpoint deployment, image publishing, and inference-engine updates.
  • Support research on test-time compute scaling, RL rollout, and model-hardware co-design.

Requirements

  • Deep low-level systems programming experience with C, C++, or Rust.
  • Experience with large-scale, high-concurrency production serving.
  • Experience with GPU inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, Triton, or TensorRT-LLM.
  • Strong background in batching, caching, load balancing, and parallelism optimization.
  • Experience with GPU kernels and code generation for inference optimization.
  • Experience with quantization, speculative decoding, distillation, and low-precision numerics.
  • Experience testing, benchmarking, and ensuring the reliability of inference services.
  • Experience designing and implementing CI/CD infrastructure for inference.

Benefits

  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.

Tech Stack

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About xAI

1,001-5,000 employees

Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers

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