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Senior / Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - Germany

Germany💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-07 → 2026-09-27

Core

Building and optimizing high-performance, sub-second multimodal inference systems for real-time voice models used in consumer AI applications.

Role type

Senior / Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Serving

Builds

Realtime voice models and inference APIs for health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, and media applications.

Domain

AI / Machine Learning / Real-time Inference

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Inference optimization (vLLM, TRT-LLM), Model acceleration (quantization, distillation, caching, continuous batching, paged attention, speculative decoding), High-performance systems programming (C++, CUDA, Rust, optimized Python), Distributed systems & scaling (Kubernetes, Ray, multi-GPU/multi-node inference), Full-cycle ownership of model serving

Preferred skills

Open-source contributions to inference engines, Deep-dive technical write-ups, PhD in CS/Physics/Math or equivalent practical experience

Technologies

vLLM, TRT-LLM, C++, CUDA, Rust, Python, Kubernetes, Ray, NVIDIA GPUs

Responsibilities

Optimize model inference latency and throughput, Profile and squeeze performance out of GPU hardware, Manage distributed inference clusters, Containerize and deploy models to production, Design benchmarks and prototypes for unclear problems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with potential for lead responsibilities

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