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Cartesia

Inference Engineer

$180K–$250K

*HQ - San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Dec 12, 2024

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About the job

Build and improve low-latency, scalable inference and serving infrastructure for Cartesia’s foundation models and products.

What you'll do

  • Design and build model inference and serving systems for Transformers, SSMs, and hybrid models.
  • Work with research and product engineering teams to serve products efficiently and reliably.
  • Build inference infrastructure and monitoring for products.

What they ask for

  • Strong engineering skills, including navigating complex codebases and writing maintainable code.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems focused on performance, reliability, and observability.
  • Technical leadership and ability to deliver zero-to-one results amid ambiguity.
  • Experience with machine-learning or generative-model inference pipelines and implementing machine-learning models or research in applied settings.

Nice to have

  • Experience with vLLM, SGLang, Continuous Batching, or other inference frameworks.
  • Experience with CUDA, Triton, or similar.

Pay

$180K – $250K (base salary)

Tools

Transformers, SSMs, vLLM, SGLang, Continuous Batching, CUDA, Triton

AI focus

Develop and serve real-time multimodal intelligence and foundation models, including Transformers, SSMs, and hybrid models.

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