CareerPlan

AI Engineer

Seattle (WA), USFull-time$138k–$275k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build and optimize inference systems for Zoom's AI models in production, focusing on latency, throughput, and cost reduction for transformer and multimodal models.

Role type

Senior IC AI Infrastructure Engineer (Inference Systems)

Builds

High-performance inference serving stack for Zoom's products

Domain

AI Infrastructure / High-Performance Computing / GPU Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Inference frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM), GPU profiling and debugging, Python, C++, speculative decoding, continuous batching, KV cache management, quantization, distributed/multi-GPU serving

Preferred skills

CUDA/Triton kernel development, MoE or 100B+ parameter model serving, NCCL/RDMA/RoCE experience, ML systems research

Technologies

vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, ONNX Runtime, Nsight Systems, PyTorch, CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS

Responsibilities

Build and tune inference serving components for transformer and MoE models; Implement inference optimizations (speculative decoding, batching, quantization); Profile GPU workloads and root-cause performance regressions; Extend inference frameworks for production requirements; Build internal benchmarking and performance modeling tooling; Partner with researchers to deploy new model architectures; Provide on-call support for production services

Seniority

Junior to Mid-level, hands-on IC