SA
San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
$252K – $362K/yr
AWSAzureGCPDocker
I
Active4w ago
Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer
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 a Forward Deployed Engineer to make Inferact successful inside real customer environments. You'll work directly with customers to deploy, integrate, debug, and optimize vLLM-powered inference systems across cloud, Kubernetes, GPU, networking, and model-serving environments. This is a hands-on engineering role, not a traditional pre-sales position. You'll move from architecture discussions to implementation, own difficult production problems end-to-end, and work closely with core product and engineering teams to turn what you learn in the field into reusable product capabil
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- Source: Inferact's official careers site (via Ashby) · last confirmed on the source 31 Oct 2026
- Posted 2 Oct 2026
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Qualification
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems, machine learning, or similar. Strong software engineering ability in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar, with experience building production-quality integrations, tooling, services, automation, or prototypes. Hands-on experience deploying or operating ML systems, model serving, AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or high-scale backend systems in production. Ability to work directly with sophisticated customer engineering teams, understand ambiguous technical environments, and personally drive implementations and debugging to resolution. Strong systems debugging skills across application, runtime, infrastructure, networking, identity, storage, observability, and distributed-system boundaries. Ability to reason about latency, throughput, batching, model/runtime compatibility, scaling, reliability, and cost tradeoffs in production inference environments. High ownership and strong technical communication, with the judgment to distinguish one-off customer work from problems that should become reusable product capabilities. Preferred
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