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Photon

Member of Technical Staff, Inference Systems (US)

Photon • Palo Alto, CA

Company

Photon

Annual salary

$230k – $350k/yr

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Listed

17d ago

Experience:
2 to 10 years
Workplace:
Five days a week on-site in Palo Alto.
Equity:
Competitive

On-site in Palo Alto, CA.

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About this Role

We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Inference Systems with 2+ years of experience to help build a high-performance AI inference platform from the ground up. You are a systems engineer who lives and breathes inference internals, attention, KV cache, batching, scheduling, and you want to own the entire stack rather than work on a narrow slice. You'll join a small, fast-moving team building a new inference system in Rust, where every design decision is yours to shape. If you've spent time inside engines like vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM and want to do the most impactful work of your career, this is the role.

What will you be doing?

  • Build a new inference runtime from scratch in Rust, owning batching, scheduling, request routing, and the full serving stack.

  • Design and implement KV cache management, prefix caching, and optimizations that directly reduce latency and cost per token.

  • Scale serving across GPUs and nodes, tackling multi-GPU and multi-node challenges head-on.

  • Profile, benchmark, and ship performance improvements across the entire inference pipeline.

  • Collaborate closely with a small founding team to make core architectural decisions that define the platform.

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