Vmax
Member of Technical Staff - RL Infrastructure
$300K–$500K
San Francisco +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Build and maintain the infrastructure platform that enables researchers to run, debug, and reproduce large-scale RL experiments.
What you'll do
- Build infrastructure for distributed RL training and inference across thousands of GPUs; improve experiment reliability, debuggability, and throughput.
- Develop researcher-facing tools to launch, inspect, compare, and reproduce experiments, and own infrastructure projects from design through maintenance.
- Identify bottlenecks and maintain standards for testing, observability, versioning, and reproducibility.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering experience.
- Experience building infrastructure for LLM inference and/or RL training, and experience with GPU clusters, distributed training, model serving, or high-throughput inference systems.
- Familiarity with vLLM, SGLang and modern LLM-RL training frameworks.
- Strong understanding of reliability, observability, testing, debugging, and performance optimization; experience building tools, platforms, or services for technical users.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting research or fast-moving ML teams.
- Evidence of independent technical work or experience reducing operational complexity in brittle, slow, or hard-to-debug systems.
Pay
$300,000 - $500,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
vLLM, SGLang
AI focus
Build infrastructure for large-scale RL training, inference, rollouts, evaluations, and experiments.
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