Founder-Level VP, AI Inference & Systems

Blue Signal Search; United States; Hybrid; USD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Signal Search is seeking a senior software leader for a founder-level role shaping the next era of high-performance AI inference. You will architect and guide the software stack, drive hardware acceleration strategy, and recruit top engineering talent.

You will influence product direction, lead a small elite team, and partner with founders to define the roadmap while delivering production-ready systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building or optimizing production scale AI inference or distributed systems software for accelerator rich environments.
• Strong systems background in GPU programming, kernel optimization, runtime design, communication layers, caching, batching, or scheduling.
• Track record of shipping technically difficult platforms where performance, reliability, and scalability all matter.
• Experience leading senior engineers and attracting top talent, with the judgment to balance urgency and long-term architecture.
• Familiarity with modern model serving patterns, speculative execution approaches, and performance measurement for large scale AI workloads.
• Comfortable operating in an early-stage company where ambiguity is high and leaders help define the playbook.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of a high-performance AI inference software stack spanning runtime, scheduling, serving, and system optimization.
• Build and mentor a small elite engineering team while remaining hands on with code, technical design, and execution.
• Partner with founders to shape product roadmap, infrastructure strategy, and the path from software acceleration into programmable hardware and future silicon.
• Improve throughput, latency, utilization, and cost efficiency across modern accelerator-based deployments and distributed environments.
• Work closely with strategic customers and ecosystem partners to support real world production adoption and performance tuning.
• Establish engineering standards for hiring, release quality, experimentation, and cross functional collaboration in a fast-moving startup setting.

Skills

AI inference

Distributed systems

GPU programming

Kernel optimization

Runtime design

Scheduling

Leadership

Job description

Blue Signal Search is seeking a senior software leader for a founder-level role shaping the next era of high-performance AI inference. You will architect and guide the software stack, drive hardware acceleration strategy, and recruit top engineering talent.

You will influence product direction, lead a small elite team, and partner with founders to define the roadmap while delivering production-ready systems at scale.