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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