Wafer
Member of Technical Staff
$250K
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 20, 2026
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About the job
Build and operate inference optimization systems and heterogeneous clusters, while owning customer workloads, technical evaluations, and production relationships end to end.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize high-performance computing kernels, inference engine internals, serving infrastructure, and AI agents for autonomous inference engineering.
- Design, deploy, and operate heterogeneous clusters across vendors; run customer workloads in production and resolve performance or reliability issues.
- Own customer accounts end to end, prove performance on customer workloads, explain results, and inform the product roadmap.
What they ask for
- Exceptional engineering ability, including shipping and operating production systems and independently diagnosing issues with profilers and traces.
- Experience owning a customer relationship and taking personal responsibility for addressing its problems.
- Ability to present and defend benchmark methodology to engineers, work with ambiguous problems, and deliver a scoped solution.
Nice to have
- Inference experience.
Pay
$250K (base salary; type not specified); $1K/month (housing stipend, post-tax)
AI focus
Develop AI agents for autonomous inference engineering and optimize AI inference workloads across silicon.
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