Machine Learning Engineer - Inference

Together AI
San Francisco / San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States2024-06-06

About the job

Together AI is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join our Inference Engine team, focusing on optimizing and enhancing the performance of our AI inference systems. This role involves working with state-of-the-art large language models models and ensuring they run efficiently and effectively at scale. If you are passionate about AI inference, PyTorch, and developing high-performance systems, we want to hear from you. This position offers the chance to collaborate closely with AI researchers and engineers to create cutting-edge AI solutions. Join us in shaping the future at Together AI!

Responsibilities

Design and build the production systems that power the Together AI inference engine, enabling reliability and performance at scale.

Develop and optimize runtime inference services for large-scale AI applications.

Collaborate with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world.

Conduct design and code reviews to ensure high standards of quality.

Create services, tools, and developer documentation to support the inference engine.

Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing.

Qualifications

Minimum

3+ years of experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production-quality code.

Proficiency with Python and PyTorch.

Demonstrated experience in building high performance libraries and tooling.

Excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.

Preferred

Knowledge of existing AI inference systems such as TGI, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Optimum

Knowledge of AI inference techniques such as speculative decoding.

Knowledge of CUDA/Triton programming.

Nice to have: Knowledge of Rust, Cython and compilers.