Staff Inference Engineer
Designworks Talent9 hours ago
Bellevue, WA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and operate production-grade model-serving and inference systems for high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads.
- Optimize inference infrastructure for token throughput, latency, scalability, GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and cost.
- Improve platform scalability and operational maturity as customer demand grows.
- Partner with AI training, GPU performance, orchestration, infrastructure, and operations teams on production serving.
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and operational practices for reliable inference services.
- Investigate and resolve performance, reliability, and capacity challenges.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating production machine learning inference or model-serving systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of latency, throughput, memory utilization, and cost trade-offs when serving large AI models.
- Experience designing reliable distributed systems or production infrastructure.
- Understanding of GPU-backed AI workloads and inference scaling challenges.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to independently own complex technical problems.
- Experience with inference-serving frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, or similar technologies is preferred.
- Experience optimizing LLM inference workloads or large-scale AI serving platforms is preferred.
- Background operating API-based AI products or high-volume production services is preferred.
- Experience with GPU scheduling, distributed systems, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with quantization, batching, caching, or performance tuning is preferred.
- Experience at a hyperscaler, AI lab, GPU cloud provider, or large-scale ML infrastructure organization is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid role in Bellevue, Washington, with approximately three days per week in the office.
- Candidates elsewhere in the U.S. who are open to relocation are encouraged to apply.
- U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with company match and paid holidays are provided.
- Certain roles may be eligible for merit increases, annual bonuses, and long-term incentives.
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