Applied AI Researcher: Inference & Infrastructure Strategist

Designworks Talent; Bellevue (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Designworks Talent is seeking an Applied Researcher -- AI Expert in Bellevue, WA, with a hybrid work arrangement. You will shape the AI infrastructure strategy, evaluate models and accelerator platforms, and translate research into practical engineering choices for scalable AI workloads.

You will collaborate across engineering, product, finance, and sales to ensure credible offerings, while tracking vendor roadmaps and economics related to density, cooling, and power.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience with modern AI models.
• Deep inference expertise, not just training.
• Experience with accelerator ecosystems and model serving.

Responsibilities

• Define and align the data center AI infrastructure strategy.
• Track vendor roadmaps, compute density, cooling, and power implications.
• Formulate and defend product/engineering theses for AI infrastructure.
• Own the technical reference view of client GPU halls across generations.
• Influence cost models for rack, MW, and GPU-hour economics.
• Support sales and diligence with credible technical offerings.

Skills

AI models

Inference

Accelerator ecosystem

CUDA/Triton

Tools

vLLM

SGLang

TensorRT-LLM

CUDA

Triton

Job description

Designworks Talent is seeking an Applied Researcher -- AI Expert in Bellevue, WA, with a hybrid work arrangement. You will shape the AI infrastructure strategy, evaluate models and accelerator platforms, and translate research into practical engineering choices for scalable AI workloads.

You will collaborate across engineering, product, finance, and sales to ensure credible offerings, while tracking vendor roadmaps and economics related to density, cooling, and power.