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Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

PerplexityMember of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

Requirements

3+ years professional software engineering experience, GPU programming expertise (CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS), Experience with distributed systems, Proficiency in Rust and Python, Understanding of LLM architectures

Skills

CUDARustPythonPyTorchLLM

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Support transformer-based retrieval, text-generation, and multimodal models in inference infrastructure
  • Port in-house CUDA kernels to NVIDIA's CuTe DSL for GB200 and future hardware
  • Develop internal Rust-based inference servers to handle growing traffic
  • Profile and fix performance bottlenecks from network ingress to GPU kernel interleaving
  • Build reliability and observability tools including dashboards, alerts, and automated remediation

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience in ML inference or high-performance systems
  • Deep experience with GPU programming (CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, or similar)
  • Experience building and operating production distributed systems under real load
  • Proficiency across Rust, Python, and CUDA/CuTe DSL
  • Strong understanding of modern LLM architectures and inference optimization techniques
  • Understanding of GPU architectures including memory hierarchy and tensor cores
  • Familiarity with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with ML compilers and framework internals (PyTorch internals, torch.compile)
  • Knowledge of distributed GPU communication (NCCL, NVLink, InfiniBand, RDMA)
  • Experience with low-precision inference (INT8/FP8/FP4 quantization)
  • Proficiency with profiling tools like Nsight Compute/Systems or CUDA-GDB
  • Experience with Kubernetes and GPU scheduling
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Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

Perplexity · San Francisco

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