Member of Technical Staff, Inference
- Salary
- SGD 200K - SGD 400K
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · Singapore
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Inferact's standard text
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.
About the Role
We're looking for an inference runtime engineer to push the boundaries of what's possible in LLM and diffusion model serving. Models grow larger. Architectures shift: mixture-of-experts, multimodal, agentic. Every breakthrough demands innovations on the inference engine itself. You'll work at the core of vLLM, optimizing how models execute across diverse hardware and architectures. Your work will directly impact how the world runs AI inference.
Skills and Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
- Deep understanding of transformer architectures and their variants.
- Strong programming skills in Python with experience in PyTorch internals.
- Experience with LLM inference systems (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, TGI).
- Ability to read and implement model architectures and inference techniques from research papers.
- Demonstrate the ability to contribute performant and maintainable code and debug in complex ML codebases.
Preferred qualifications:
- Deep understanding of KV-cache memory management, prefix caching, and hybrid model serving.
- Familiarity with RL frameworks and algorithms for LLMs.
- Experience with multimodal inference (audio/image/video/text).
- Contributions to open-source ML or system infrastructure projects.
Bonus points if you have:
- Implemented core features in vLLM or other inference engine projects.
- Contributed to vLLM integrations (verl, OpenRLHF, Unsloth, LlamaFactory, etc).
- Written widely-shared technical blogs or side projects on vLLM or LLM inference.
Logistics
- Location: This role is based in Singapore.
- Compensation: Depending on background, skills, and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is S$200,000 to S$400,000 annually + equity.
- Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis.
- Benefits: Inferact offers a generous benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
What this role asks for
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The team: Research & Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 23 open in Research & Engineering. 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in January: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (14 of 23), LLM (11 of 23), PyTorch (11 of 23), Kubernetes (10 of 23), Golang (9 of 23), Machine Learning (8 of 23), CUDA (7 of 23)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Engineering Manager posted Oct 14
- Member of Technical Staff, Vulnerability Management posted Oct 2
- Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 2
- Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing Infrastructure posted Sep 24
- Member of Technical Staff, Production Site Reliability Engineer posted Sep 22
- Inference Engineering, Co-op posted Sep 15
- Member of Technical Staff, Inference posted Sep 4
- Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Orchestration (Remote) posted Aug 25
- Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing Infrastructure posted Aug 21
- Member of Technical Staff, AMD GPU Performance Engineering posted Jun 26
- Member of Technical Staff, TPU Performance Engineering posted Jun 26
- Member of Technical Staff, AMD GPU Performance Engineering posted Jun 25
- Member of Technical Staff, Performance and Scale posted Jun 24
- Member of Technical Staff, Kernel Engineering posted Jun 24
- Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Orchestration posted Jun 24
- Member of Technical Staff, Inference posted Jun 18
- Member of Technical Staff, Developer Relations posted Jun 17
- Member of Technical Staff, TPU Performance Engineering posted Jun 17
- Member of Technical Staff, Exceptional Generalist (Remote) posted Jan 22
- Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Orchestration posted Jan 22
- Member of Technical Staff, Kernel Engineering posted Jan 22
- Member of Technical Staff, Performance and Scale posted Jan 22
From the team and dates on Inferact's own job board.
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