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Inference Engineer

adaption · San Francisco

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In brief

adaption is hiring: Inference Engineer in San Francisco.

Duties

  • You'll own the cost and performance of our inference stack. Your work will determine how efficiently we serve models as workloads, traffic, and…
  • You'll work closely with the engineers operating the serving fleet while owning the core performance levers: caching, batching, quantization…
  • Success means improving throughput and latency without compromising reliability or model quality.

Required profile

  • 5+ years in ML systems, inference infrastructure, or performance engineering, with measurable improvements in cost or latency.
  • Deep understanding of model serving, including prefill and decode, memory bandwidth, batching, and concurrency.

Benefits

  • Flexible work: In-person collaboration in the Bay Area, a distributed global-first team, and team offsites.
  • Adaption Passport: Annual travel stipend to explore a country you've never visited. We're building intelligence that evolves alongside you, so we…

Excerpt from the ad

THE ROLE You'll own the cost and performance of our inference stack. Your work will determine how efficiently we serve models as workloads, traffic, and hardware change. You'll work closely with the engineers operating…

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