ML Model Serving Engineer
Sesame · San Francisco · New York · Bellevue
CHECKED 3H AGO
Applied AIonsite$175k–$280k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turbocharge serving for LLM, speech, and vision models powering new consumer products
- Make models faster without sacrificing quality to enable lifelike voice computers.
- Help define a new consumer product category for lifelike voice agents.
What they offer
- 401(k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options
Ideal candidate
Performance-obsessed systems thinker who loves squeezing speed from large models and shipping reliable, high-throughput services for real consumer products. You stay current on serving tricks and lead complex projects end to end.
Requirements
- Expert in differentiable array computing framework, preferably PyTorch
- Expert in optimizing ML models for high-throughput, low-latency reliable serving
- Significant systems programming experience with high-performance server systems
- Significant performance engineering experience including bottleneck analysis and profiling
- Up to date on latest techniques for model serving optimization
- Familiarity with high-performance LLM serving, VLLM and SGLang deployment and internals
- Experience with public cloud platform such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience deploying and scaling inference workloads using Kubernetes, Ray, etc.
- Track record of leading complex multi-month projects without assistance
- Excited to learn new things and work in a multitude of roles
Lab profile
About Sesame
Designing lifelike computers and voice agents that see, hear, and collaborate naturally.
What they build
- Lifelike voice agents
- Voice-first computer hardware
Known for
- Lifelike voice interaction
- Hardware and software co-design
- Leaders from Oculus, Meta, Google, Apple