Drimva

Crusoe

Senior Manager, Engineering - AI Inference

$250K–$300K

San Francisco, CA - US · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026

Experience
2+ years of direct engineering team management.
Education
Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

About the job

Leads an engineering team while hands-on optimizing, deploying, and supporting production AI inference systems for customer workloads.

What you'll do

  • Lead team delivery, technical strategy, and roadmaps from experiments through production.
  • Profile and optimize inference serving architectures and stacks for latency, throughput, cost, and reliability.
  • Partner with customers to tailor deployments and take workloads from proof of concept to monitored production services.

What they ask for

  • 2+ years of direct engineering team management in a high-performance or ML-focused environment.
  • Strong hands-on experience in software engineering, low-level optimization, or ML infrastructure, including production coding in a general-purpose language.
  • Familiarity with LLM inference optimization, serving frameworks, performance profiling to kernel level, and GPU behavior.
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Nice to have

  • Python is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with CUDA or comparable technologies, Docker and Kubernetes, or customer-facing AI/ML projects.

Pay

up to $250,000 - $300,000 USD base salary + Bonus; Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers (amount not stated)

Tools

vLLM, SGLang, CUDA, Python, C++, Docker, Kubernetes

AI focus

Applies and optimizes large language model inference techniques for production deployments, including serving architecture, performance profiling, and customer-specific workload tuning.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)