Founding ML Engineer - Outspeed

About UsOutspeed is creating the most lifelike conversational voice systems to augment human-computer interaction. We are building the infrastructure and tools to unlock applications in therapy, coaching, companionship and gaming.Outspeed is led by an experienced team of researchers and engineers with collective experience from MIT, Google, and Microsoft. Our team is based in San Francisco and values empathy, deep technical knowledge, and autonomy. Janak earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT and built grid-scale AI algorithms and infra at Autogrid (acq. Schneider). Sahil is a published researcher who led AI infra efforts at Google and Microsoft.Role DescriptionAs a Founding Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the company's technical direction. You will get to build and scale our GPU infrastructure for realtime AI performance, optimizing inference engines for lowest latencies, distributed inference and finetuning voice models. You will also engage directly with our customers, and contribute heavily to the architectural roadmap. Your technical leadership will be instrumental in supporting and growing our engineering and product teams. This role requires a proactive individual comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with frequently shifting priorities.BenefitsCompetitive salary + EquityHealth, dental, and vision insurance.Bonuses based on performanceWe are a company founded by immigrants, and we are committed to providing support to immigrant workers throughout their journey.RequirementsExperience in end-to-end ML application development, including data engineering, model tuning, and model servingExperience contributing to the architecture and design of resilient, large scale distributed ML systemsStrong understanding of ML development technologies such as Pytorch, Transformers, CUDA etc.Strong understanding of ML inference technologies such as vLLM, sglang, llama.cpp etc.Nice-to-havesStrong understanding of IaC technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Terraform and FirecrackerStrong understanding of public cloud features (e.g. SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, identity management)Enjoy moving fast and making a large business impact

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