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Staff Software Engineer, Foundational Model Serving

Mountain View, California💼 Full-time💰 $192,000–$192,000🗓 2026-04-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and build high-throughput, low-latency inference systems for hosting and serving frontier AI models (open source and proprietary) via API.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Foundational Model Serving)

Builds

Foundation Model Serving API product for LLM inference

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Large Language Model Serving

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale distributed systems, high-scale operational backend systems, system design, algorithms, data structures, GPU workload optimization, architectural decision-making, code quality, testing, operational readiness, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Experience with vLLM or SGLang, token-based rate limiting, cross-functional collaboration, product-oriented mindset

Technologies

vLLM, SGLang, GPU workloads

Responsibilities

Design and implement core systems and APIs ensuring scalability and reliability; Define technical roadmap and long-term architecture; Optimize performance, throughput, and autoscaling for GPU serving; Contribute to key infrastructure components; Collaborate cross-functionally to translate customer needs into systems; Establish best practices and mentor engineers; Represent the team in cross-organizational technical discussions

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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