Unusual Ventures

Software Engineer, ML Serving - Rime Ai

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Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement Rime’s TTS serving infrastructure from GPU-backed inference engines through the API layer.
  • Optimize model serving from single-node deployments to disaggregated fleets.
  • Support NVIDIA hardware architectures from Hopper through Blackwell for on-premises and cloud deployments.
  • Own continuous integration and deployment workflows for the model-serving pipeline.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability across the serving stack.
  • Provision resources and manage costs across the GPU fleet.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with real-time multinode ML serving infrastructure and frameworks such as NVIDIA Dynamo, Triton, vLLM, SGLang, or equivalent.
  • Experience with distributed or disaggregated model serving, including Tensor Parallel or Pipeline Parallel approaches.
  • Strong cloud infrastructure fundamentals, including Linux internals, networking, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, Packer, or comparable tooling.
  • Willingness to participate in on-call and share responsibility for production reliability.
  • Preferred experience with multinode training using DDP or FSDP.
  • Preferred experience with gRPC, bidirectional binary streaming, audio streaming, WebRTC, WebSockets, multilingual monorepos, multi-cloud infrastructure, and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
  • SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering experience at a startup and experience at an early-stage company are preferred.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity upside at an early-stage company.
  • Work location is San Francisco / Bay Area.
  • Direct collaboration with inference, platform, and ML teams in a high-ownership, low-bureaucracy environment.
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