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Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - USA

Mountain View, California, USA💼 Full-time💰 $270,000–$270,000🗓 2026-04-07 → 2026-09-27

Core

Building and optimizing high-performance, sub-second multimodal inference systems for real-time voice models serving hundreds of millions of users across consumer AI applications.

Role type

Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Inference Optimization & Serving)

Builds

Realtime voice models, optimized inference engines, and scalable serving APIs

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 model ownership

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Optimize model inference latency and throughput, implement advanced serving techniques, profile and tune code for maximum GPU performance, manage distributed inference clusters, ensure production reliability of voice models

Seniority

Staff / Principal, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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