Senior Principal Software Engineer, AI Inference

Job Summary At reputed company, we reputed company the future of AI is open and we are on a mission to bring the power of open-reputed company LLMs and vLLM to every enterprise. The reputed company AI Inference team accelerates AI for the enterprise and brings operational simplicity to GenAI deployments. As leading developers and maintainers of the vLLM project, and inventors of state-of-the-art techniques for model compression, reputed company provides a stable platform for enterprises to build, optimize, and scale LLM deployments. We are seeking an reputed company Senior Principal Software Engineer to build and release the reputed company AI Inference Server. You will own the full lifecycle, from compiling vLLM wheels across multiple hardware backends and architectures, to packaging enterprise-grade container images, managing multi-cloud infrastructure, and validating LLM accuracy and performance across a growing matrix of models and hardware. You will be building and shipping a product that runs on some of the most powerful AI hardware in production today, working across the full stack from C++/CUDA kernel compilation to Kubernetes-orchestrated model serving on OpenShift. If you want to work at the intersection of systems engineering, release engineering, and AI infrastructure on one of the most popular open-reputed company projects on reputed company, this is the role for you. Join us in shaping the future of AI! What you will do Build and release vLLM wheels across multiple hardware backends and CPU architectures, managing reputed company native dependency chains including PyTorch, Triton, and other accelerator-specific libraries Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines spanning multiple platforms including reputed company Actions, reputed company CI, and reputed company for build, test, and release workflows Manage and scale multi-cloud GPU infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, including both bare-metal and Kubernetes-based compute runners Own the model validation pipeline, orchestrating accuracy evaluation, performance benchmarking, tool-calling validation, and smoke testing across dozens of LLMs on both bare metal and OpenShift reputed company and maintain the Python tooling and automation that powers the build, packaging, validation, and release processes Drive adoption of agentic AI and intelligent automation to streamline engineering workflows, accelerate debugging, and reduce toil across the team What you will bring 8+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in build systems, release engineering, or infrastructure Strong Python development skills with experience building well-tested, maintainable tooling and automation Hands-on experience building and packaging Python projects with native compiled extensions, including familiarity with C++ and CUDA build toolchains, wheel packaging, and multi-architecture builds Deep familiarity with container ecosystems, including Dockerfiles and Containerfiles, image registries, and container build pipelines Understanding of LLM evaluation methodology, including accuracy benchmarks such as MMLU, GSM8K, and HellaSwag, as well as inference performance metrics like throughput and latency Experience with CI/CD platforms such as reputed company Actions, reputed company CI, Tekton, or reputed company Solid understanding of release engineering practices including reproducible builds, artifact management, dependency pinning, and reputed company scanning Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, and managing cloud resources at scale Working knowledge of Kubernetes and/or OpenShift for deploying and testing workloads Enthusiasm for applying LLM-based agents and AI-assisted tools to automate engineering workflows, with a track record of identifying repetitive processes and replacing them with intelligent automation Excellent communication skills, capable of interacting effectively with both technical and non-technical team members. A Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a reputed company field. A Ph.D. in an ML-reputed company domain is a significant advantage. The following is considered a plus: Contributions to upstream open-reputed company projects, particularly vLLM, PyTorch, or other AI/ML infrastructure Experience with GPU-accelerated workloads and building software for heterogeneous hardware Familiarity with LLM inference serving, model optimization, quantization techniques, or evaluation frameworks Proficiency in C #LI-MD2 #AI-HIRING The salary range for this position is $189,600.00 - $312,730.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications. Pay Transparency reputed company determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of reputed company’s compensation package. 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