Senior LLM Inference Architect — Heterogeneous Hardware

d-Matrix inc.

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

d-Matrix inc. is hiring end-to-end inference engineers to innovate LLM solutions in Santa Clara, CA. You will work with novel hardware and software to optimize performance and deploy advanced inference systems.

Ideal candidates possess strong Python and C/C++ skills, along with a deep understanding of generative AI architectures and extensive experience in performance optimization of LLM frameworks. Join a small, senior team committed to cutting-edge AI development.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant engineering experience or equivalent.
  • Experience optimizing attention kernels, KV cache, batching strategies, and quantization (INT8/FP8/INT4).
  • Experience contributing to a major inference framework.

Responsibilities

  • Prototype emerging LLM inference use cases.
  • Build proof-of-concept systems.
  • Develop and tune custom kernels for optimal performance.

Skills

Python
C/C++
LLM inference optimization
CUDA/Triton
Performance profiling tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

vLLM
SGLang
TensorRT-LLM
ONNX Runtime

Job description

d-Matrix inc. is hiring end-to-end inference engineers to innovate LLM solutions in Santa Clara, CA. You will work with novel hardware and software to optimize performance and deploy advanced inference systems.

Ideal candidates possess strong Python and C/C++ skills, along with a deep understanding of generative AI architectures and extensive experience in performance optimization of LLM frameworks. Join a small, senior team committed to cutting-edge AI development.

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