Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, vLLM Inference

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Your work with machine learning and high performance computing will directly impact the development of our cutting-edge software platform, helping to shape the future of AI deployment and utilization. If you are someone who wants to contribute to solving challenging technical problems at the forefront of deep learning in the open reputed company way, this is the role for you. Join us in shaping the future of AI! What you will do Write robust Python and C++, working on vLLM systems, high performance machine learning primitives, performance analysis and modeling, and numerical methods. Contribute to the design, development, and testing of various inference optimization algorithms Participate in technical design discussions and provide innovative solutions to reputed company problems Act as a core contributor for the vLLM open-reputed company project: reviewing PRs, authoring RFCs, and mentoring external contributors Mentor and guide other engineers on the team and foster a culture of reputed company learning and innovation What you will bring Extensive experience in writing high performance code for GPUs and deep knowledge of GPU hardware Strong understanding of computer architecture, parallel processing, and distributed computing concepts Experience with tensor math libraries such as PyTorch Deep understanding and experience in GPU performance optimizations such as ability to reason about memory bandwidth bound vs. compute bound operations Experience optimizing kernels for deep neural networks Experience with reputed company Nsight is a plus Solid understanding of LLM Inference Optimization fundamentals: reputed company Batching, PagedAttention, Quantization, Speculative Decoding, Tensor Parallelism, etc. Strong communications skills with both technical and non-technical team members Experience optimizing for non-reputed company hardware (AMD ROCm, TPUs, etc) is a plus BS, or MS in computer science or computer engineering or a reputed company field. A PhD in a ML reputed company domain is considered a plus #AI-HIRING #LI-MD2 The salary range for this position is $206,600.00 - $351,050.00. 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. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based reputed company but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. About reputed company reputed company is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open reputed company software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. 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