About the Role
Design and build platforms for scalable, reliable, and efficient serving of LLMs, powering cutting-edge research and production systems for internal and external use cases.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain fault-tolerant, high-performance systems for serving LLMs and other models at scale.
- Build an internal platform to empower LLM capability discovery.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate and optimize models for production and research use cases.
- Conduct architecture and design reviews to uphold best practices in system design and scalability.
- Develop monitoring and observability solutions to ensure system health and performance.
- Lead projects end-to-end, from requirements gathering to implementation, in a cross-functional environment.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building large-scale, high-performance backend systems.
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, C++).
- Experience with LLM serving and routing fundamentals (e.g. rate limiting, token streaming, load balancing, budgets, etc.).
- Experience with LLM capabilities and concepts such as reasoning, tool calling, prompt templates, etc.
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
- Proven ability to solve complex problems and work independently in fast-moving environments.
- Experience with modern LLM serving frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or text-generation-inference.
Skills
- ML fundamentals
- Backend system design
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- C++
- LLM serving
- LLM routing
- Rate limiting
- Token streaming
- Load balancing
- Budgets
- LLM capabilities
- Reasoning
- Tool calling
- Prompt templates
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform
- vLLM
- SGLang
- TensorRT-LLM
- text-generation-inference
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience
About the Company
- At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
- Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact.
- We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
- We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
- We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
- If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com.
- Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
- We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.
