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Cloud Inference Engineer

Luminal

San Francisco, CAFull-timeSeen 2mo agoStill listed 2 days ago

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Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
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Job overview

Luminal seeks a Cloud Inference Engineer to join the founding team onsite in downtown San Francisco. The role focuses on deploying, tuning, and optimizing low‑latency, high‑throughput model serving on Luminal Cloud, including performance reviews, scheduler improvements, and occasional kernel development.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Torch/PyTorchCUDAGPU Inference OptimizationvLLMSGLangTensorRT-LLMKV CachingPaged AttentionBatchingToken StreamingDistributed ComputeGPUs

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Qualifications

  • CUDA + GPU inference optimization
  • vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM experience
  • KV caching, paged attention, batching, token streaming, etc.
  • Distributed compute (with GPUs is a super plus)
  • No degree required

Company Luminal (YC S25) builds an AI compiler and serving stack that makes models 10x faster and production ready with one line. Role Founding, on site in downtown SF. Ship low latency, high throughput model serving on Luminal Cloud. Day to day responsibilities:

  • Deploy and tune models with optimizations like KV caching, paged attention, sequence packing, etc.
  • Conducting model performance reviews
  • Improve scheduler, batcher, autoscaling; profile latency, cost, utilization
  • Sometimes write kernels and, yes, occasional tasteful shitposting

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