Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Inference Platform

Stack AV; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stack AV is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Machine Learning Inference Platform in Pittsburgh, PA or Remote. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of meaningful subsystems, focusing on model onboarding, performance optimization, and mentoring engineers.

We're looking for candidates with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, and 4+ years of experience in backend distributed systems. Strong programming skills in C++, Go, or Python are essential. An equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion, Stack AV is dedicated to building innovative autonomous solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building and operating backend distributed systems end to end.
• Strong foundation in data-intensive distributed systems, concurrency, networking, and performance profiling.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale inference services on GPUs.

Responsibilities

• Own technical design and delivery of subsystems in a multi-tenant inference platform.
• Develop robust API layers and SDKs for distributed inference orchestration.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams for model onboarding.

Skills

C++

Go

Rust

Python

Deep Learning Frameworks (PyTorch, etc.)

CUDA

NCCL

NVLink

Networking Architectures

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

TensorRT

Dynamo

Triton Framework

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Inference Platform

Pittsburgh, PA or Remote

About Stack

Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting‑edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.

About the Role

In the Senior Engineer role, you will own meaningful subsystems of Stack AV's inference platform and drive them from design through production. You will be the go‑to engineer for one or more areas such as model onboarding, serving APIs, metering, observability, performance optimization, or tenant isolation. The role requires strong hands‑on implementation, production debugging, thoughtful design, and the ability to mentor engineers while keeping delivery moving.

Responsibilities

• Own technical design and delivery of subsystems in a high‑throughput, low‑latency inference platform capable of handling multi‑tenant, enterprise‑grade inference workloads.
• Develop robust API layers (gRPC, WebSockets, REST, etc.) and developer SDKs that abstract complex distributed inference orchestration into seamless, reliable token streams.
• Build and harden a multi‑tenant control plane to enable accurate metering, rate limiting, quotas, tenant isolation and noisy‑neighbor fairness across the platform.
• Optimize inference performance across the entire system stack, including the model engine layer.
• Build observability and SLOs to gain insights into system economics, cache‑hit rates, GPU utilization and cost accounting per model and per tenant.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams on model onboarding, capacity planning, external API contracts and customer adoption.
• Decompose ambiguous work, drive issues to closure, and raise the engineering bar through code quality, reviews, testing, and mentoring.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 4+ years of experience building and operating backend distributed systems end to end.
• Strong Data & ML systems fundamentals: data‑intensive distributed systems, concurrency, networking and performance profiling.
• Hands‑on experience with large‑scale inference services on GPUs, including KV caches, prefill/decode stages and throughput/latency trade‑offs.
• Direct experience with inference engines (TensorRT, vLLM, etc) or serving frameworks (Dynamo, Triton or equivalent).
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong programming skills in C++, Go, Rust or Python.
  • Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, etc.) as well as model parallelism.
  • Familiarity with GPU computing primitives such as CUDA, NCCL, NVLink, and hardware‑specific optimizations.
  • Practical understanding of high‑performance networking architectures, including InfiniBand, RoCE, and low‑latency cluster communication.
• Problem‑Solving: Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Autonomous vehicles (AV) experience is a bonus.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We believe that diverse teams produce the best ideas and outcomes. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation across gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and identity.

National Security Compliance Notice

Pursuant to its business activities and use of technology, Stack AV complies with all applicable U.S. national security laws, regulations, and administrative requirements, which can restrict Stack AV's ability to employ certain persons in certain positions pursuant to a range of national security‑related requirements. As such, this position may be contingent upon Stack AV verifying a candidate's residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status. This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for Stack AV to obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing its technologies to certain persons. If Stack AV determines that a candidate's residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status will require a license, prohibit the candidate from working in this position, or otherwise be subject to national security‑related restrictions, Stack AV expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Stack AV shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate's application.