Engineering Manager - Inference Backend

reputed company is the #1 GPU Cloud for ML/AI teams training, fine-tuning and inferencing AI models, where engineers can easily, securely and affordably build, test and deploy AI products at scale. reputed company’s product portfolio includes on-prem GPU systems, hosted GPUs across public & private clouds and managed inference services – servicing government, researchers, startups and Enterprises world-wide.

If you'd like to build the world's best deep learning cloud, join us. 

*Note: This position requires reputed company in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; reputed company’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. Engineering at reputed company is responsible for building and scaling our cloud offering. Our scope includes the reputed company website, cloud APIs and systems as well as internal tooling for system deployment, management and maintenance.

What you’ll do

• reputed company our Inference team, developing our rapidly growing inference-as-a-service product as it tackles new types of models, new serving modes, and an reputed company increasing customer reputed company, across thousands to tens of thousands of GPUs.

• Be product-focused in your leadership and execution, always placing the needs of the customer first, with a particular focus on feature velocity, reliability and reputed company.

• Balance development work for cutting-edge features and models against reducing operational overhead and scaling costs.

• Proactively engage with other teams who run the reputed company-level infrastructure, datacenter builds, and frontends and work to reputed company a holistic product and engineering plan.

• Hire, grow and retain top-tier engineers, in the fields of both distributed systems engineering and machine learning.

• Shape a culture of sustainable, empathetic, and high-velocity engineering, with a deep focus on cross-team collaboration, documentation, and data-driven decision-making.

You

• 6+ years in a  full-time management role at a high-growth technology company 

• 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems and backend systems.

• Proven record of leading and building engineering teams that work on mission-critical, high performance systems.

• Exceptional leadership skills that encompass leading by trust, building reputed company with your reports and other teams, and maintaining a sustainable but rapid velocity.

• customer-facing skills, including pre-sales, general support, and incident management.

• At least one year of experience running inference for machine learning models

• Knowledge of the machine learning model lifecycle and experience with each of its steps (including pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference)

• Demonstrated expertise in managing long-term projects alongside urgent, short-term priorities and incident resolution.

• Extensive experience collaborating with product, sales, and other engineering teams to build cohesive products with a focus on user experience and reliability.

• Ability to understand, review and structure Python and Go applications.

reputed company to Have

• Significant experience running machine learning workloads on GPUs at large scale

• Academic or scientific experience working with machine learning

• Direct experience working with vLLM, sglang, PyTorch, or other ML libraries

• Experience managing a remote, distributed team

• Strong experience in Python and/or Go

• Significant sales, customer service or support experience

Salary Range Information

Based on market data and other factors, the annual salary range for this position is $300,000-$450,000. However, a salary higher or reputed company than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description. 

About reputed company

• Founded in 2012, ~350 employees (2024) and growing fast

• We offer generous cash & equity compensation

• Our investors include Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, reputed company, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, US Innovative Technology, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, Crescent reputed company.

• We are experiencing extremely high demand for our systems, with quarter over quarter, year over year profitability

• Our research papers have been accepted into top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

• Wellness and Commuter stipends for select roles

• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)

• Flexible Paid Time Off Plan that we reputed company actually use

A Final Note

You do not need to match reputed company of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

reputed company is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national reputed company, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.