Junior Software Engineer – Inference

About the role

We’re seeking a software engineer to support our AI infrastructure team in Columbia, MD. In this role, you’ll help build and maintain the foundation for customer AI capabilities while supporting a broader ecosystem of AI-enabled applications. Your focus will be ensuring access to the highest available quality LLMs to users throughout the inference software stack.

Responsibilities

• Procure, configure, and test new inference models, preparing them for release to our user base.
• Develop in-house services and techniques to guarantee continual high-quality inference service for our customer.
• Work with model vendor teams and representatives to create reliable pipelines for closed-source model usage.
• Collaborate with teammates on surge efforts to support short-term, high-priority inference needs from our customer.
• Engage with other teams in our organization to establish solid infrastructure for our services and integrate LLM-powered tools for user needs.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or 7 years without a degree.
• TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required.

Skills

Required

• Experience with Python and/or other modern programming languages.
• Familiarity with Argo CD and/or other CI/CD frameworks.
• Experience with Kubernetes/Helm.
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud service providers.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong communication skills and willingness to ask questions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with vLLM, LiteLLM, or similar inference-serving frameworks.
• Experience with other LLM hosting frameworks and practices.
• Experience supporting production software using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.
• Experience with Elastic, Grafana/Prometheus, or other observability frameworks and practices.
• Experience with Docker and containerization.
• Experience in traffic shaping and quality-of-service engineering.
• Knowledge of and interest in hosting AI capabilities.

Pay

$138,000 - $163,000

Location

Columbia, MD