CareerPlan

Member of Technical Staff — Model Optimization and Inference (New Grad)

SeattleFull-time$200k2026-09-15 → 2026-11-11
On-siteVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Optimizing real-time inference for full-duplex multimodal AI avatars to achieve sub-500ms latency.

Role type

New Grad Model Optimization and Inference Engineer

Builds

Real-time conversational AI avatars with emotional intelligence

Domain

AI/ML Systems, Real-time Inference, Multimodal Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM inference optimization, KV cache management, inference serving frameworks, Python, PyTorch, profiling and benchmarking, quantization techniques, CUDA/Triton familiarity

Preferred skills

Diffusion model inference acceleration, speculative decoding, open-source contributions to inference frameworks, hard latency SLA experience

Technologies

vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, CUDA, Triton, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Implement and tune KV cache strategies for long-context conversations, Profile and benchmark end-to-end latency and throughput, Build internal tooling for optimization work, Accelerate diffusion model inference, Apply quantization techniques to reduce memory footprint

Seniority

Junior, New Grad