Staff Engineer, Inference & RL Systems — Scale Production ML

Dormont Manufacturing Co; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

401(k) with salary matching

Generous health, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited paid time off

Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend

Job summary

Dormont Manufacturing Co is looking for a Software Engineer on the Inference & RL Systems team in San Francisco. The role involves designing distributed systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring high reliability for RL and post-training workflows.

The ideal candidate will possess strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with large-scale systems. Compensation includes a competitive salary range from $225K to $550K, along with equity, health benefits, and unlimited paid time off.

Qualifications

• Experience operating large-scale inference or training systems.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and distributed systems.
• Ability to reason about latency, throughput, and cost trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale high-performance inference serving systems.
• Optimize KV-cache management and scheduling.
• Build and maintain distributed RL and post-training infrastructure.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Distributed systems

GPU execution constraints

Performance debugging

System-level trade-offs

Job description

Dormont Manufacturing Co is looking for a Software Engineer on the Inference & RL Systems team in San Francisco. The role involves designing distributed systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring high reliability for RL and post-training workflows.

The ideal candidate will possess strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with large-scale systems. Compensation includes a competitive salary range from $225K to $550K, along with equity, health benefits, and unlimited paid time off.