# Inference Performance Engineer at Adaption

- Company: Adaption
- What the company does: Adaption builds AI systems that adapt as real world conditions change. 

Moving beyond static and costly retraining cycles, Adaption delivers intelligence that evolves through real world interaction, enabling efficient AI across domains, languages and... Backed by Emergence Capital.
- Company website: https://adaptionlabs.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adaption/0be49174-9463-4c93-82d9-f227b0ab6a7c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/adaption-inference-performance-engineer/

## About the role

You'll own the cost and performance of our inference stack. Your work will determine how efficiently we serve models as workloads, traffic, and hardware change. You'll work closely with the engineers operating the serving fleet while owning the core performance levers: caching, batching, quantization, decoding, and kernel-level optimization. Success means improving throughput and latency without compromising reliability or model quality.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in ML systems, inference infrastructure, or performance engineering, with measurable improvements in cost or latency
- Deep understanding of model serving, including prefill and decode, memory bandwidth, batching, and concurrency
- Production experience with serving engines such as vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM
- Strong Python skills and proficiency in C++, Rust, or another systems language
- Experience with GPU performance, including CUDA, NCCL, mixed precision, memory layout, kernels, or quantization
- Above all, we're looking for great teammates who make work feel lighter and aren't afraid to go out on a limb with bold ideas. You don't need to be perfect, but you do need to be adaptable. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check every box

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