Weka
Tech Lead - AI Inference
U.S. Remote +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Mar 26, 2026
- Location
- U.S. Remote
United States - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering; proven experience leading engineers and owning complex production systems.
About the job
Leads a three-developer team building and operating high-performance LLM inference infrastructure, combining hands-on engineering with technical direction and people leadership.
What you'll do
- Own inference infrastructure and guide design, implementation, and delivery of reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Contribute hands-on across the serving stack and tackle inference challenges such as disaggregated prefill/decode, KV caching, RDMA transport, and GPU memory hierarchies.
- Mentor and develop engineers, and evaluate emerging inference tools to guide adoption decisions.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with proven experience leading engineers and owning complex production systems.
- Hands-on expertise in LLM serving, including KV cache reuse, disaggregated prefill/decode, continuous batching, and multi-tier GPU memory hierarchies; familiarity with vLLM, LMCache, NIXL/NVIDIA Dynamo, or similar.
- Strong Python and C++ skills, with knowledge of CUDA, GPU memory management, and high-performance I/O including GDS, RDMA, and NVMe data paths.
- Experience deploying and scaling GPU workloads on Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Experience in AI/ML infrastructure or high-performance computing.
- Rust skills; familiarity with RDMA networking, bare-metal GPU clusters (H100/A100), and high-throughput distributed storage.
Tools
Python, C++, CUDA, vLLM, LMCache, NIXL/Dynamo, Kubernetes, SGLang
AI focus
Leads development of LLM inference and serving infrastructure, including KV caching, disaggregated prefill/decode, and GPU memory optimization.
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