ML Inference Platform Engineer

SNAP, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Core Inference team within the Core ML Platform. You will build and own the ML inference infrastructure powering personalized experiences across Discover, Stories, Spotlight, and more.

The role focuses on production-ready model hosting, serving, fine-tuning, and scaling across multiple product areas. The position requires strong Python/Java skills, experience with distributed systems, and a track record of operating highly available systems at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of post‑Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree +1 year; or PhD in a relevant field.
• Experience building large scale production machine learning systems, distributed systems or big data processing.

Responsibilities

• Support models powering personalized experiences across Snap products with ranking needs.
• Optimize, export, and prepare models for efficient production use across training and inference.
• Own the infrastructure used to host and serve recommendation models, embedding-generation models, and self-hosted LLMs.
• Work on LLM fine-tuning, reinforcement learning infrastructure, serving, and inference optimization.
• Provide model-hosting and serving capabilities to teams across Ads, Content, Growth, Lenses, Security, My AI, and other product areas.
• Own the inference components that power advertising models and related ranking strategies.
• Provide ranking and ML infrastructure for products requiring model hosting or serving.

Skills

Python

Java

Problem solving

Distributed systems

Big data processing

Collaboration

Scalability

Learning agility

AI systems adaptation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent

Master’s degree

PhD (relevant field)

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Spark

scikit-learn

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Core Inference team within the Core ML Platform. You will build and own the ML inference infrastructure powering personalized experiences across Discover, Stories, Spotlight, and more.

The role focuses on production-ready model hosting, serving, fine-tuning, and scaling across multiple product areas. The position requires strong Python/Java skills, experience with distributed systems, and a track record of operating highly available systems at