Member of Technical Staff - Inference

Hyperbolic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyperbolic Labs in San Francisco seeks an Inference Engineer to build and scale inference on Forge and our Kubernetes stack, enabling customers to run models without managing GPUs. You’ll own deployment, monitoring, and endpoints across global clusters on heterogeneous hardware.

You’ll expand into optimization, autoscaling, KV-cache orchestration, and debugging real traffic. The role combines hands-on engineering with product ownership and requires a broad, systems-level view of the inference

Qualifications

• Strong general inference background covering deployment to token serving.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience with inference frameworks and serving engines.
• Experience with distributed serving architectures.

Responsibilities

• Deploy models on Forge and Kubernetes for production serving.
• Evaluate inference frameworks and set up monitoring, gateways, and endpoints.
• Optimize performance with autoscaling and KV-cache orchestration.
• Debug inference issues and support customers.

Skills

Inference stack

End-to-end ownership

System design

Performance tuning

Tools

Kubernetes

NVIDIA Dynamo

RDMA networking

Monitoring tools

Job description

Who We Are

Hyperbolic Labs is on a mission to democratize AI by breaking down the barriers to computing power with our Open-Access AI Cloud. By making better use of idle computing resources across the globe, we offer an innovative GPU marketplace and AI inference service that promise affordability and accessibility for all. As pioneers at the intersection of AI and open-source technology, we believe in an open future where AI innovation is limited only by imagination, not by access to resources. We're looking for forward-thinking individuals who share our passion for making AI universally accessible, secure, and affordable. Join us in building a platform that empowers innovators everywhere to turn their visionary AI projects into reality.

About the Role

We're looking for an Inference Engineer to build inference capabilities on top of Forge, our unified control plane, so customers can consume model tokens without managing GPUs and our NeoCloud partners get a full-stack path to their own token-factory offering. You'll own how models get deployed and served across clusters distributed around the world, on heterogeneous hardware.

Deployment comes first: serving models on Forge and our Kubernetes offering, evaluating inference frameworks, and standing up the monitoring, gateways, and endpoints that make a deployment production-ready. From there the work expands into optimization, autoscaling, KV-cache orchestration, and customer inference debugging. This is the primary seat for inference at Hyperbolic - you'll build it end to end, with real influence over where the scope lands.

Who You Are

• Strong general inference background with a broad, high-level command of the stack rather than a narrow specialty - you can reason about the whole path from request to token
• Deep Kubernetes experience, including hands-on ability to operate clusters in production, not just deploy to them
• Solid grasp of the concepts that govern inference performance: TTFT, disaggregated inference, speculative decoding, and KV cache and its inner workings
• Familiarity with modern inference frameworks and serving engines, and the judgment to evaluate and select among them for a given workload
• Working knowledge of NVIDIA Dynamo and how it fits into a distributed serving architecture
• Experience setting up monitoring, gateways, and endpoints for production inference services
• Proven ability to build a product end to end - you've taken something from nothing to serving real traffic
• Strong self-initiative and comfort operating as the primary owner of an area with minimal direction
• Generalist instincts: you're willing to pick up adjacent work when it's what the product needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience spanning both inference deployment and inference optimization
• Hands-on model optimization work - quantization, batching strategies, kernel-level tuning, or similar
• Understanding of RDMA and high-performance networking as they apply to distributed serving
• Experience deploying inference across heterogeneous accelerators
• Background supporting customers directly on inference debugging and performance issues
• Experience at a GPU cloud, inference provider, or AI infrastructure company

Hyperbolic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.