About the Role
Together AI is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join our Inference Engine team, focusing on optimizing and enhancing the performance of our AI inference systems. This role involves working with state-of-the-art large language models models and ensuring they run efficiently and effectively at scale. If you are passionate about AI inference, PyTorch, and developing high-performance systems, we want to hear from you. This position offers the chance to collaborate closely with AI researchers and engineers to create cutting-edge AI solutions. Join us in shaping the future at Together AI!
Responsibilities
- Design and build the production systems that power the Together AI inference engine, enabling reliability and performance at scale.
- Develop and optimize runtime inference services for large-scale AI applications.
- Collaborate with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world.
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure high standards of quality.
- Create services, tools, and developer documentation to support the inference engine.
- Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience writing high-performance, well-tested, production-quality code.
- Proficiency with Python and PyTorch.
- Demonstrated experience in building high performance libraries and tooling.
- Excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
- Preferred: Knowledge of existing AI inference systems such as TGI, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Optimum
- Preferred: Knowledge of AI inference techniques such as speculative decoding.
- Preferred: Knowledge of CUDA/Triton programming.
- Nice to have: Knowledge of Rust, Cython and compilers.
About Together AI
Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.
Compensation
We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 - $300,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level, and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
Equal Opportunity
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