LLM Inference Frameworks and Optimization Engineer
Together AI · San Francisco, CA · 2 days ago
Engineering$160k–$230k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design and develop fault-tolerant, high-concurrency distributed inference engine for text, image, and multimodal generation models.
- Implement and optimize distributed inference strategies, including Mixture of Experts (MoE) parallelism, tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism for high-performance serving.
- Apply CUDA graph optimizations, TensorRT/TRT-LLM graph optimizations, and PyTorch-based compilation (torch.compile), and speculative decoding to enhance efficiency and scalability.
- Collaborate with hardware teams on performance bottleneck analysis, co-optimize inference performance for GPUs, TPUs, or custom accelerators.
- Work closely with AI researchers and infrastructure engineers to develop efficient model execution plans and optimize E2E model serving pipelines.
Requirements
- Must-Have:
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in deep learning inference frameworks, distributed systems, or high-performance computing.
- Technical Skills: Familiar with at least one LLM inference frameworks (e.g., TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, TGI(Text Generation Inference)). Background knowledge and experience in at least one of the following: GPU programming (CUDA/Triton/TensorRT), compiler, model quantization, and GPU cluster scheduling.
- Deep understanding of Transformer architectures and LLM/VLM/Diffusion model optimization.
- Knowledge of inference optimization, such as workload scheduling, CUDA graph, compiled, efficient kernels.
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills with a performance-driven mindset.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across teams.
- Nice-to-Have:
- Experience in developing software systems for large-scale data center networks with RDMA/RoCE.
- Familiarity with distributed filesystems (e.g., 3FS, HDFS, Ceph).
- Experience with open source distributed scheduling/orchestration frameworks, such as Kubernetes (K8S).
- Contributions to open-source deep learning inference projects.