CareerPlan

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Boston, USFull-time$186k–$287k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Architect, develop, and optimize high-performance LLM inference systems, GPU kernels, and numerical computing components for production-scale serving environments.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (LLM inference systems)

Builds

vLLM-based inference pipelines, GPU kernels, and distributed serving systems

Domain

Large Language Models (LLM) / High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

High-performance Python, Modern C++, CUDA, Triton, GPU memory architecture, LLM inference optimization, distributed computing, performance profiling

Preferred skills

Open-source contribution, AI-assisted development, emerging serving techniques

Technologies

vLLM, PyTorch, Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, CUPTI, CUTLASS, NVIDIA GPUs

Responsibilities

Architect and optimize LLM inference algorithms (quantization, sparsification, speculative decoding); Drive deep performance profiling and benchmarking on NVIDIA GPUs; Own end-to-end optimization of inference pipelines; Evaluate and integrate state-of-the-art serving techniques; Set engineering standards and conduct peer reviews; Contribute to upstream open-source vLLM maintenance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC