Member of Technical Staff, Inference

Mirendil•United States, CA

About The Position

Mirendil Mirendil is a tech-first company focused on solving core bottlenecks that unlock step-change acceleration across science and technology. Our first goal is to democratize frontier AI R&D across scientific disciplines. We believe accelerating scientific discovery is one of the most powerful ways to improve the future of humanity, and that AI will play a central role in making that possible. We are building a frontier AI research company and training our own models end-to-end. Our work spans areas such as model training, reinforcement learning, reasoning systems, and infrastructure for large-scale experiments. Our team includes researchers and engineers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, and MIT.

Requirements

Engineer to own the inference systems that power our models in production and research
Work across the full inference stack, from serving infrastructure down to hardware-level optimization

Responsibilities

Design and build high-throughput, low-latency inference serving systems for frontier models, optimizing for both research iteration and production deployment
Optimize inference performance across GPU and accelerator hardware - maximizing FLOPs utilization, memory bandwidth, and compute efficiency for large-scale models
Enable and extend distributed inference frameworks (e.g. vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM) to support novel architectures, long-context workloads, and agentic inference patterns
Implement and validate inference-time optimizations: speculative decoding, quantization, KV cache management, and batching strategies
Build observability and reliability infrastructure so the team can measure latency, throughput, and cost across every serving configuration
Partner directly with teams to bring new model architectures and post-training techniques into production quickly