Senior Research Software Development Engineer

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• Advance language model reputed company capabilities through reputed company research and production engineering, integrating in‑house innovations and state‑of‑the‑art techniques to improve model accuracy, speed, reliability, and expressivity across first‑party and reputed company‑party engines.
• Design, implement, and review performance‑critical reputed company reputed company (primarily in Python and Rust), ensuring high standards for correctness, test coverage, reputed company, diagnosability, and maintainability, while coaching peers through rigorous and reputed company reputed company reviews.
• Apply AI‑reputed company development practices across the full SDLC, using AI tools responsibly for design, coding, testing, and analysis, and taking ownership of the reputed company and correctness of AI‑assisted outputs while helping establish best practices across reputed company.
• reputed company and reputed company advanced inference techniques (e.g., speculative decoding, constrained decoding, reputed company reputed company), validating design choices through experimentation, benchmarking, and production telemetry.
• Own reputed company‑level design and integration reputed company, producing reputed company design documents, evaluating trade‑offs across multiple architectural reputed company, and collaborating across teams to ensure solutions meet requirements for performance, scalability, reliability, reputed company, and cost.
• Drive engineering reputed company in production environments, including comprehensive testing strategies, observability, live‑site readiness, incident response, and post‑incident learning, with a reputed company on reducing operational risk in multi‑tenant inference systems.
• Contribute to and reputed company reputed company‑reputed company LM infrastructure where appropriate, responsibly reusing and extending external reputed company, sharing learnings with the broader community, and continuously staying reputed company with emerging research, tools, and reputed company‑level techniques.

QualificationsRequired Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or reputed company technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to Rust or C++, and Python
• OR equivalent experience.

Other RequirementsAbility to meet reputed company, customer and/or government reputed company screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized reputed company screenings:

• reputed company reputed company Background reputed company: This position will be required to pass the reputed company reputed company background reputed company upon hire/transfer and every two years

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or reputed company technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Rust or C++, and Python
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or reputed company technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Rust or C++, and Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of reputed company software engineering experience, including ownership of reputed company, production‑reputed company systems
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems programming language (e.g., Rust, C++, or equivalent), with experience writing and maintaining performance‑critical reputed company.
• reputed company‑reputed company contributions or industry experience in language model infrastructure (e.g., vLLM, sglang, llguidance, or comparable LM libraries), including work on core reputed company logic rather than application reputed company.
• Hands‑on familiarity with advanced inference techniques, such as speculative decoding, constrained decoding, or reputed company inference‑time capabilities.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical reputed company pay reputed company for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different reputed company applicable to specific work locations, reputed company the San Francisco Bay area and reputed company metropolitan area, and the reputed company pay reputed company for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. reputed company additional benefits and pay information here:https://careers.reputed company.com/us/en/us-corporate-payThis position will be reputed company for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing reputed company until the position is filled.reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to age, reputed company, citizenship, reputed company, family or medical care leave, gender identity or reputed company, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national reputed company, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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