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Sr. AI Engineer - Inference Optimization

USA💼 Full-time💰 $229,900–$286,200🗓 2026-07-13 → 2026-09-29

Core

Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, and observability to improve scalability, cost efficiency, latency, and throughput in large-scale production systems.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (Inference Optimization)

Builds

Scalable, high-performance AI capabilities and proprietary platforms for banking customers.

Domain

Financial services / Large-scale AI systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM inference optimization, similarity search, VectorDBs, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, observability, hardware utilization optimization, latency reduction, throughput improvement, cost efficiency, Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++, C#, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Nemo Guardrails

Preferred skills

Leading and mentoring engineering teams, influencing cross-functional partners, applying advanced optimization techniques to training and inference software, applying new AI research methods in production

Technologies

AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Partner with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products; design, build, test, deploy, and maintain AI software components; invent and apply state-of-the-art LLM optimization methods; help shape the technical direction and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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