Applied AI Research Engineer
Beam New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
$140k–200k/yr Employer field
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About the 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.
# **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.
* 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
# Skills & Experience
* 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
# Benefits
* Competitive salary and meaningful equity * Join a fast-growing pre-series A company at the ground floor * Health, dental, and vision benefits with 90% coverage for you and 50% for dependents * Opportunities to participate in events across the cloud native community * Fitness stipend, learning budget, and much, much more
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