Drimva

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ML Systems Engineer

$250K–$350K

Menlo Park, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Apr 29, 2026

Experience
No years specified.
Education
Bachelor’s degree or similar experience
Visa sponsorship
Yes, we sponsor visas.

About the job

Build and optimize the infrastructure for large-scale ML training, inference, reinforcement learning, and scientific AI systems.

What you'll do

  • Build and optimize training and reinforcement learning infrastructure, inference and serving systems, and distributed runtimes.
  • Develop secure sandboxing and execution environments; optimize memory, GPU kernels, and communication.
  • Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency across the ML systems stack.

What they ask for

  • Strong systems programming and performance engineering skills, with experience building high-performance ML infrastructure at scale.
  • Deep expertise in at least one area: training, distributed runtime, inference, sandboxing, GPU kernels, or GPU communication.
  • Strong coding ability and engineering judgment; ability to own complex technical problems end-to-end.
  • Bachelor’s degree or similar experience.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with TorchTitan, FSDP, veRL, Slime, or other distributed training systems.
  • Familiarity with Monarch, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or production LLM serving systems.

Pay

$250,000-$350,000 USD base salary

Tools

Megatron-LM, Ray, SGLang, CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS, NCCL, InfiniBand

AI focus

Build agentic infrastructure for large-scale training, inference, and reinforcement learning; work effectively with AI agents to design, implement, test, and debug complex systems.

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First seen Oct 13, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)