Orchestrate Distributed Inference: Deploy and configure LLM-D and vLLM on Kubernetes clusters.
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.
Code Side-by-Side: Work directly with customer engineers to write production-quality code (Python/Go/YAML) that integrates our inference engine into their existing Kubernetes ecosystem.
Solve the "Unsolvable": Debug complex interaction effects between specific model architectures (e.g., MoE, large context windows), hardware accelerators (NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, TPUs), and Kubernetes networking (Envoy/ISTIO).
Feedback Loop: Act as the "Customer Zero" 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 proof-of-concepts.

8+ Years of Engineering Experience: You have a decade-long track record in Backend Systems, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
Customer Fluency: 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.
Deep Kubernetes Expertise: You are fluent in K8s primitives, from defining custom resources (CRDs, Operators, Controllers) to configuring modern ingress via the Gateway API.
AI Inference Proficiency: You understand how a LLM forward pass works. You know what KV Caching is, why prefill/decode disaggregation matters, why context length impacts performance, and how continuous batching works in vLLM.
Systems Programming: Proficiency in Python (for model interfaces) and Go (for Kubernetes controllers/scheduler logic).
Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Helm, Terraform, or similar tools for reproducible deployments.
Cloud & GPU Hardware Fluency: You are comfortable spinning up clusters and deploying LLMs on bare-metal and hyperscaler Kubernetes clusters.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account
healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account
high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Inference, vLLM, Kubernetes

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