# Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer at Inferact

- Company: Inferact
- What the company does: Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the world. Backed by Sequoia and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://inferact.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-02
- Apply by: 2026-11-16
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inferact/b127864f-5c71-4c96-90ce-cb20c57391a9?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inferact-member-of-technical-staff-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems, machine learning, or similar
- Strong software engineering ability in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar, with experience building production-quality integrations, tooling, services, automation, or prototypes
- Hands-on experience deploying or operating ML systems, model serving, AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or high-scale backend systems in production
- Ability to work directly with sophisticated customer engineering teams, understand ambiguous technical environments, and personally drive implementations and debugging to resolution
- Strong systems debugging skills across application, runtime, infrastructure, networking, identity, storage, observability, and distributed-system boundaries
- Ability to reason about latency, throughput, batching, model/runtime compatibility, scaling, reliability, and cost tradeoffs in production inference environments

Tags: Research & Engineering

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