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Inference Performance Engineer, Agent Driven Inference Optimization

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$124k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Senior Inference Performance Engineer optimizing large-scale AI inference workloads and serving frameworks to maximize GPU throughput and interactivity.

Role type

Senior IC Inference Performance Engineer

Builds

Optimized AI inference serving frameworks (TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, vLLM, Dynamo) and GPU kernels

Domain

AI Inference / GPU Computing / High-Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU workload profiling, CUDA kernel optimization, Python engineering, C++/CUDA codebase navigation, experimental methodology, continuous batching, KV cache management, quantization, speculative decoding, MoE serving, NCCL/NIXL/NVSHMEM communication

Preferred skills

Agentic AI workflow automation, disaggregated serving, Hopper/Blackwell architecture expertise, MLPerf Inference benchmark results

Technologies

TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, vLLM, Dynamo, Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, CUPTI, PyTorch profiler, CUDA, Hopper, Blackwell

Responsibilities

Design autonomous optimization workflows for AI agents; Profile and tune AI inference workloads for throughput and latency; Develop serving framework patches and optimized kernels; Collaborate with architecture and kernel teams to implement performance fixes.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC