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Principal Software Engineering Manager - Substrate efficiency

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead engineering team to optimize inference runtime efficiency, model execution performance, and throughput per GPU for large-scale AI/ML systems.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager (Inference Runtime)

Builds

High-performance inference engines and distributed systems for AI/ML workloads

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / High-Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, distributed systems, system throughput optimization, resource utilization, systems thinking, workload scheduling, batching, infrastructure efficiency, AI/ML inference systems, GPU-based workloads, runtime optimization, cost-per-query optimization

Preferred skills

N/A

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Define and drive strategy to improve throughput per GPU through runtime optimizations; Establish metrics, telemetry, and experimentation frameworks to measure efficiency gains; Own live-site performance, reliability, and operational excellence for inference engines at scale; Drive alignment across partner teams on engine interfaces, performance goals, and optimization priorities; Increase engineering agility for faster experimentation and rollout of performance improvements.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with management

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