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Founding Infrastructure Engineer

Santa Clara, CA💼 Full-time💰 $1–$3🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and scale the enterprise infrastructure layer for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enable developers to fine-tune, specialize, and run models that convert images, PDFs, and video into structured data.

Role type

Senior/Staff Infrastructure Engineer (VLM/LLM)

Builds

Scalable VLM inference stack, developer APIs for multimodal apps, and production-grade visual intelligence systems.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

VLM/LLM application integration, Python backend engineering, Kubernetes orchestration, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), scalable data pipelines, API design, observability

Preferred skills

SaaS platform development, full-stack dev experience

Technologies

vLLM, OpenAI, HuggingFace, Ollama, FastAPI, Docker, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis

Responsibilities

Own and optimize the VLM inference stack from GPU serving to backend systems; Design clean, ergonomic APIs for multimodal applications; Take ideas from 0→1 to define production-grade visual intelligence standards.

Seniority

Senior or Staff-level, hands-on IC

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