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Senior Staff Software Engineer – Managed AI

Senior Staff Software Engineer – Managed AI

CompanyCrusoe
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$290000 – $290000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Demonstrable experience in distributed systems design and implementation.
  • Proven track record of delivering early-stage projects under tight deadlines.
  • Expertise in using cloud-based services, such as elastic compute, object storage, virtual private networks, managed database, etc.
  • Experience in Generative AI (Large Language Models, Multimodal).
  • Familiarity with AI infrastructure, including training, inference, and ETL pipelines.
  • Experience with container runtimes (e.g., Kubernetes) and microservices architectures.
  • Experience using REST APIs and common communication protocols, such as gRPC.
  • Demonstrated experience in the software development cycle and familiarity with CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of core AI services, including resilient fault-tolerant queues, model catalogs, scheduling mechanisms, and high-performance APIs.
  • Build and scale infrastructure to handle millions of API requests per second.
  • Optimize AI inference performance on GPU-based systems.
  • Implement robust monitoring and alerting to ensure system health and availability.
  • Collaborate closely with product management, business strategy, and other engineering teams.
  • Influence the long-term vision and architectural decisions of the AI platform.
  • Contribute to open-source AI frameworks and participate in the AI community.
  • Prototype and iterate on new features and technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Proficiency in Golang or Python for large-scale, production-level services.
  • Contributions to open-source AI projects such as VLLM or similar frameworks.
  • Performance optimizations on GPU systems and inference frameworks.