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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