Staff Software Engineer, Foundational Model Serving

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Foundation Model Serving is the API Product for hosting and serving frontier AI model inference for open source models like Llama, Qwen, and GPT OSS as well as proprietary models like Claude and OpenAI GPT. For this role, no prior ML or AI experience is necessary. We’re looking for engineers who have owned high scale operational sensitive systems like customer facing APIs, Edge Gateways, ML Inference, or similar services and have an interest in getting deep building LLM APIs and runtimes at scale.

What it asks for · 6

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading high-scale operationally sensitive backend systems.
• A track record of up-leveling teams engineering excellence.
• Proven ability to deliver technically complex, high-impact initiatives that create measurable customer or business value.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams in fast-moving environments.
• Strategic and product-oriented mindset with the ability to align technical execution with long-term vision.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• systems9×
• model7×
• serving7×
• product6×
• technical5×
• customer4×
• data4×
• design4×
• engineers4×
• experience4×
• infrastructure4×
• operational4×
• platform4×
• apis3×
• building3×
• collaborate3×

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