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San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
$165K – $330K/yr
PythonKubernetesMachine LearningAI
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Role overview
Job description
Overview Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build. About the Role We're looking for exceptional University of Waterloo co-op students who want to work on the systems that determine how fast, efficiently, and reliably frontier AI models run on frontier workloads at scale. This is not a sandboxed internship project. We will match your strengths and interests to a real engineering problem across the vLLM stack, from model execution and low-level accelerator code to distributed serving and the cloud platform that makes it all usable. You'll work alongside the creators and core maintainers of vLLM on work intended to ship into open source, production systems,
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- Source: Inferact's official careers site (via Ashby) · last confirmed on the source 31 Oct 2026
- Posted 15 Sept 2026
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What they are looking for
Skills & requirements
Qualification
Currently pursuing a bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field, and eligible for a University of Waterloo co-op work term. Strong programming ability in Python, C++, Rust, Go, or another systems-oriented language. Strong computer science fundamentals and the ability to learn from research papers, technical documentation, and complex systems code. Evidence that you have built and debugged nontrivial software through coursework, research, a prior internship, open-source work, or an ambitious side project. A builder mindset: you define what success means, measure results, validate correctness, communicate clearly, and keep iterating until the system works. Preferred
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Inferact
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