LLM Inference Engineer

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Los Altos, CA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Software
The Role
Own the end-to-end LLM serving stack on custom accelerator hardware. Port and optimize frameworks such as vLLM and SGLang, implementing scheduling, continuous batching, KV caching, distributed inference, multimodal processing, and inference-time optimization. Profile production systems, identify bottlenecks across APIs, runtimes, kernels, and compilers, and guide hardware and software development.
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We’re a fast-moving, US-Israeli AI startup building next-generation infrastructure for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. Our mission is to accelerate the future of intelligence and make it ubiquitously accessible by delivering full stack custom AI servers optimized for large-scale inference and training.

Backed by top-tier investors and led by industry veterans, we’re scaling rapidly. We seek forward-thinking engineers and operators who thrive in a collaborative environment and excel at solving complex challenges from first principles. If you want to build infrastructure that fundamentally changes what the world can accomplish with AI, come join us!

About the position



In this high-impact role, you are the bridge between cutting-edge custom silicon and production-grade AI. You will own the end-to-end LLM serving stack on Majestic hardware, architecting everything from serving APIs down to KV cache management, batching, and scheduling. Your primary mission is to port leading frameworks like vLLM and SGLang to our accelerator and optimize them for peak performance. Because our architecture offers memory headroom, you won't just match traditional GPUs; you will shatter their limits on throughput, batch sizes, and context lengths. As you hunt down bottlenecks, your insights will directly steer our future kernel, compiler, and hardware development. 


Responsibilities



  • The serving stack, end to end — bring up and adapt a modern inference framework (vLLM, SGLang, or similar) to run on Majestic hardware.
  • The runtime hot path — continuous batching, the scheduler, paged KV cache, and prefill/decode disaggregation.
  • Distributed inference at scale — tensor, pipeline, and expert parallelism across accelerators, wired into our collective communication library (CCL).
  • The multi-modal pipeline — image, audio, and video preprocessing, encoder integration, and mixed-modality batching.
  • Inference-time techniques — speculative decoding, prefix caching, and structured decoding.
  • End-to-end performance — profile, benchmark, and hunt down bottlenecks across the full serving path, feeding findings back to the kernel, compiler, and hardware teams.
Requirements


  • 5+ years building or operating production LLM inference and serving systems.
  • Deep, hands-on work with a modern inference framework vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Fireworks, or similar including its scheduler, paged attention / KV cache, model executor, and backend integration points.
  • Strong Python and C++, with the ability to move fluidly between the two.
  • A real grasp of transformer inference the prefill/decode split, KV cache behavior, and how batching dynamics shape latency and throughput.
  • Distributed inference experience tensor and pipeline parallelism across multiple devices.
  • An instinct for performance you can profile an end-to-end stack and chase a regression from the serving API all the way down to the kernel.


We seek smart, curious, self-driven individuals who enjoy creative problem-solving and continuous learning. Even if you don't meet all requirements, we'd love to hear from you if you have the mindset to tackle complex challenges.

Majestic Labs is an equal opportunity employer deeply committed to diversity of background and thought. If you are ready to dare greatly, learn from mistakes, engage in vigorous debates, and help create a step-function shift in human technical capability, we want to meet you!


Skills Required

  • 5+ years building or operating production LLM inference and serving systems
  • Hands-on experience with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Fireworks, or a similar modern inference framework
  • Experience with inference framework schedulers, paged attention or KV cache, model executors, and backend integration points
  • Strong Python and C++ skills
  • Understanding of transformer inference, prefill/decode separation, KV cache behavior, batching dynamics, latency, and throughput
  • Distributed inference experience using tensor and pipeline parallelism across multiple devices
  • Ability to profile end-to-end serving stacks and investigate performance regressions through the kernel level
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The Company
55 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Majestic Labs is reimagining AI infrastructure for the world’s most demanding workloads. Today, organizations are forced to overprovision expensive compute just to access the required memory their models need. We took a fundamentally different approach by pairing a massive amount of compute with 1000x the memory to create game changing improvements in performance, power and deployment efficiency. Our customers can literally replace racks of traditional AI infrastructure with a single Majestic server.

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