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AI Infrastructure Engineer - Recommendation & LLM

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Design, develop, and optimize large-scale AI training and online inference infrastructure for TikTok's For You recommendation system and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Role type

Senior IC AI Infrastructure Engineer (Recommendation & LLM)

Builds

Core training and serving infrastructure for billions of personalized recommendations and foundation models

Domain

Internet / AI Infrastructure & Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, distributed systems, GPU optimization, CUDA, Triton, model parallelism, KV Cache, Continuous Batching, FlashAttention

Preferred skills

LLM inference optimization, speculative decoding, high-performance computing, open-source contributions, technical mentorship

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, Triton, FSDP, ZeRO, FlashAttention

Responsibilities

Design and optimize large-scale AI training and inference infrastructure; Drive architecture of distributed training and serving systems; Optimize end-to-end model performance across GPU, memory, and networking; Develop LLM training/serving infrastructure with model parallelism and efficient inference; Resolve performance bottlenecks across the AI stack; Improve system latency, throughput, and cost efficiency; Mentor junior engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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