Machine learning, research and inference engineering roles at AI labs and AI-heavy companies that pay $300,000 a year or more.
Modal is hiring an Inference Engineering and Product Lead in San Francisco to own its LLM inference platform and lead the engineers on serving stack, routing and the product surface. Pay is stated at $300K–$350K plus equity; the role is hands-on, mixing technical work, product shaping and people management. Modal says it raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation and has passed $300M+ ARR.
OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is hiring a Data Scientist to optimize inference capacity across its global GPU fleet, using forecasting, statistical modeling and experiments. Location is San Francisco or remote. Stated pay is $293K–$325K plus equity, with 5+ years of infrastructure data science experience asked for.
OpenAI's pAGI Infra team is hiring an AI Systems Engineer to scale infrastructure for large-scale model training and evaluation, including inference and grading platforms, compute scheduling and GPU efficiency. Location is San Francisco or remote. Stated pay is $266K–$500K plus equity.
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