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Inference Engineer

Cartesia

San Francisco, Ca · on site · full time

$180,000 - $250,000

About the Role

We're hiring an Inference Engineer to advance our mission of building real-time multimodal intelligence.

Your Impact

  • Design and build low latency, scalable, and reliable model inference and serving stack for our cutting edge foundation models using Transformers, SSMs and hybrid models.
  • Work closely with our research team and product engineers to serve our suite of products in a fast, cost-effective, and reliable manner.
  • Design and build robust inference infrastructure and monitoring for our products.
  • Have significant autonomy to shape our products and directly impact how cutting-edge AI is applied across various devices and applications.

What You Bring

  • Strong engineering skills, comfortable navigating complex codebases and an eye for writing clean and maintainable code.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high demands on performance, reliability, and observability.
  • Technical leadership with the ability to execute and deliver zero-to-one results amidst ambiguity.
  • Background in or experience working on inference pipelines with machine learning and generative models.
  • Experience implementing state of the art Machine Learning models and research to applied problems.
  • Preferable: experience with vLLM, SGLang, Continuous Batching or other inference frameworks.
  • Preferable: experience working in CUDA, Triton or similar.

Benefits

Fully covered medical, dental, and vision; 401(k); 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave; commuter allowance; flexible PTO; daily lunch, dinner, and snacks; equity package.