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Engineering Manager, Inference Performance

$240K–$270K

San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026

Location
San Francisco
New York
Education
Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

About the job

Leads a team improving GPU inference performance, guiding technical strategy and execution while hiring, developing, and supporting engineers.

What you'll do

  • Lead, mentor, and grow inference performance engineers, including hiring, feedback, career development, and performance reviews.
  • Own the runtime performance roadmap and guide profiling, optimization, and productionization of inference techniques.
  • Coordinate with partner teams to ship performance improvements and measure outcomes such as latency, utilization, and cost.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Experience managing engineers, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance reviews.
  • Experience leading or closely supporting GPU optimization teams in training, inference, or recommendation systems.
  • Strong GPU workload knowledge, familiarity with ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorRT, or TensorRT-LLM, and a track record of delivering complex technical projects.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM.
  • Production experience with LLM optimization, GPU kernels, rapid-growth startup teams, or hands-on performance/systems engineering.

Pay

$240K – $270K (base salary)

Tools

PyTorch, TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS

AI focus

Optimizes and productionizes AI inference on GPUs, including quantization, speculative decoding, KV-cache management, batching, kernels, scheduling, and support for new model architectures.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)