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Applied AI Research Engineer

Beam · New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US) · Remote

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About Beam

AI-Native Cloud Platform. Backed by Index.

About the role

We’re looking to hire someone to own inference research hands-on and find ways to lower cost per token and latency on our customer workloads.

What they're looking for

  • Systems or research background in LLM inference
  • Deep understanding of LLM serving, from the kernel to the scheduler
  • History of shipping products or research that people use in production-like scenarios, whether academic or industry
  • Excited to collaborate closely with customers
  • Enthusiasm for developer tools, cloud native technologies, and open source software
More about this role

Beam is an ultrafast AI inference platform. We built a serverless runtime that launches GPU-backed containers in less than 1 second and quickly scales out to thousands of GPUs. Developers use our platform to serve apps to millions of users around the globe. We're backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, and prominent developer-tool founders, including the founder of Snyk and former CTO of GitHub.

We’re looking to hire someone to own inference research hands-on and find ways to lower cost per token and latency on our customer workloads.

  • Low-level inference optimization, from speculative decoding, quantization, KV-cache and memory management
  • Work directly with customers to optimize their production workloads, and apply your learnings to our platform as product improvements
  • High-level of autonomy to find the highest upside bets and guide the future of our inference platform based on your work
  • Systems or research background in LLM inference
  • Deep understanding of LLM serving, from the kernel to the scheduler
  • History of shipping products or research that people use in production-like scenarios, whether academic or industry
  • Excited to collaborate closely with customers

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