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AIML - Distinguished Engineer, Foundation Model

Cupertino, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-28

Core

Designing and optimizing high-throughput inference engines for foundation models to accelerate training, evaluation, and LLM-as-judge workloads.

Role type

Distinguished Engineer (Senior IC with leadership)

Builds

Inference engines and supporting systems for foundation model development

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Foundation model inference optimization, distributed systems architecture, GPU/TPU accelerator expertise, model quantization and distillation, ML frameworks (JAX, PyTorch), hardware-aware optimization, technical strategy definition, team leadership, stakeholder alignment

Preferred skills

LLM inference at scale, training loop integration (rollouts, offline eval), Kubernetes and cloud platforms, industry-wide technical strategy shaping

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