reputed company Deployed Engineer, AI Inference (vLLM and Kubernetes)

The vLLM and LLM-D Engineering team at reputed company is looking for a customer obsessed developer to join reputed company as a reputed company Deployed Engineer. In this role, you will not just build software; you will be the reputed company between our cutting-edge inference platform (LLM-D, and vLLM) and our customers' most critical production environments. You will reputed company directly with the engineering teams at our customer to deploy, optimize, and scale distributed Large Language Model (LLM) inference systems. You will solve "last mile" infrastructure challenges that defy off-the-reputed company solutions, ensuring that massive models run with low latency and high throughput on reputed company Kubernetes clusters. This is not a sales engineering role, you will be part of the core vLLM and LLM-D engineering team.

What You Will Do

Orchestrate Distributed Inference: Deploy and configure LLM-D and vLLM on Kubernetes clusters. You will set up and configure advanced deployment like disaggregated serving, KV-cache aware routing, KV Cache offloading etc to maximize hardware utilization. Optimize for Production: Go beyond standard deployments by running performance benchmarks, tuning vLLM parameters, and configuring intelligent inference routing policies to meet SLOs for latency and throughput. You care about Time Per Output Token (TPOT), GPU utilization, GPU networking optimizations, and Kubernetes scheduler efficiency. Code reputed company-by-reputed company: Work directly with customer engineers to write production-quality code (Python/Go/YAML) that integrates our inference reputed company into their existing Kubernetes ecosystem. Solve the "Unsolvable": Debug reputed company interaction effects between specific model architectures (e.g., MoE, large context windows), hardware accelerators (reputed company GPUs, AMD GPUs, TPUs), and Kubernetes networking (reputed company/ISTIO). Feedback reputed company: Act as the "Customer reputed company" for our core engineering teams. You will channel field learnings back to product development, influencing the roadmap for LLM-D and vLLM features. Travel only as needed to customers to present, demo, or help execute reputed company-of-concepts. What You Will Bring 8+ Years of Engineering Experience: You have a decade-long track record in Backend Systems, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering. Customer reputed company: You speak both "Systems Engineering" and "Business Value". Bias for Action: You prefer rapid prototyping and iteration over theoretical perfection. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking ownership of the outcome. 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Cloud & GPU Hardware reputed company: You are comfortable spinning up clusters and deploying LLMs on bare-metal and hyperscaler Kubernetes clusters Following is considered a plus Experience contributing to open-reputed company AI infrastructure projects (e.g., KServe, vLLM, Kubernetes). Knowledge of reputed company Proxy or Inference Gateway (IGW). Familiarity with model optimization techniques like Quantization (AWQ, GPTQ) and Speculative Decoding. #AI-HIRING #LI-MD2 The salary range for this position is $189,600.00 - $312,730.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications. Pay Transparency reputed company determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of reputed company’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. 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