CareerPlan

Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

New York, NYFull-time$140k–$225k2026-11-10 → 2026-11-13
On-site

Core

Build the inference platform powering every AI interaction, managing the full inference path for speed, reliability, and cost-efficiency at massive scale.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (inference platform & routing)

Builds

Inference gateway, cross-provider failover systems, routing backpressure and admission control

Domain

AI infrastructure, distributed systems, high-throughput low-latency systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

high-throughput distributed systems, inference serving, traffic routing, real-time data pipelines, cost/performance tradeoffs at scale, production system architecture

Preferred skills

GPU utilization optimization, provider economics, capacity planning

Technologies

inference serving frameworks, traffic routing systems, distributed system components

Responsibilities

Build and evolve inference gateway abstraction over provider APIs, design intelligent cross-provider failover mechanisms, design routing backpressure and admission control for traffic spikes

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC