AI Infrastructure Engineer, Model Serving Platform

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Horizontals EPD · listed January 28, 2025

The shape of it

Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
4+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$180,000 – $225,000 USD
Requirements listed
7
Length
749 words

In the posting’s own words

As a Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will design and build platforms for scalable, reliable, and efficient serving of LLMs. Our platform powers cutting-edge research and production systems, supporting both internal and external use cases across various environments.

What it asks for · 7

  • 4+ years of experience building large-scale, high-performance backend systems.
  • Experience with LLM serving and routing fundamentals (e.g. rate limiting, token streaming, load balancing, budgets, etc.)
  • Experience with LLM capabilities and concepts such as reasoning, tool calling, prompt templates, etc.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
  • Proven ability to solve complex problems and work independently in fast-moving environments.
  • Experience with modern LLM serving frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or text-generation-inference.

Also a plus

  • Experience with modern LLM serving frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or text-generation-inference.

Tools and skills named

Models & research
  • LLM7×
  • Machine learning2×
  • Inference
Cloud & infra
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Observability
  • Terraform
Languages
  • C++
  • Go
  • Python
  • Rust
Ways of working
  • Cross-functional

Words the posting leans on

  • experience6×
  • llm6×
  • system6×
  • design4×
  • e.g4×
  • serving4×
  • build3×
  • infrastructure3×
  • platform3×
  • research3×
  • backend2×
  • cases2×
  • engineer2×
  • fundamentals2×
  • high-performance2×
  • internal2×

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