Staff ML Engineer (Sonoma)

Staff ML Engineer

Direct Hire

Detroit, MI or San Francisco, CA

$195K-$295K

About the Team :

The ML Inference Platform is part of the AI Compute Platforms organization within Infrastructure Platforms. Our team owns the cloud-agnostic, reliable, and cost-efficient platform that powers our clients AI efforts. Were proud to serve as the AI infrastructure platform for teams developing autonomous vehicles (L3 / L4 / L5), as well as other groups building AI-driven products for our client and their customers. We enable rapid innovation and feature development by optimizing for high-priority, ML-centric use cases. Our platform supports the serving of state-of-the-art (SOTA) machine learning models for experimental and bulk inference, with a focus on performance, availability, concurrency, and scalability. Were committed to maximizing GPU utilization across platforms (B200, H100, A100, and more) while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

About the Role :

We are seeking a Staff ML Infrastructure engineer to help build and scale robust Compute platforms for ML workflows. In this role, youll work closely with ML engineers and researchers to ensure efficient model serving and inference in production, for their workflows such as data mining, labeling, model distillation, simulations and more. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence the future of AI infrastructure. You will play a key role in shaping the architecture, roadmap and user-experience of a robust ML inference service supporting real-time, batch, and experimental inference needs. The ideal candidate brings experience in designing distributed systems for ML, strong problem-solving skills, and a product mindset focused on platform usability and reliability.

What youll be doing :

Design and implement core platform backend software components.

• Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to understand critical workflows, parse them to platform requirements, and deliver incremental value.
• Lead technical decision-making on model serving strategies, orchestration, caching, model versioning, and auto-scaling mechanisms.
• Drive the development of monitoring, observability, and metrics to ensure reliability, performance, and resource optimization of inference services.
• Proactively research and integrate state-of-the-art model serving frameworks, hardware accelerators, and distributed computing techniques.
• Lead large-scale technical initiatives across ML ecosystem.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, establishing best practices.
• Contribute to open-source projects; represent in relevant communities.

Minimum Requirements

8+ years of industry experience, with focus on machine learning systems or high-performance backend services.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience building ML infrastructure platforms for model serving / inference.

The compensation range for this position is $195,000 to $295,000

(dependent on factors including but not limited to client requirements, experience, statutory considerations, and location).

Synergis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, military / veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

For consideration, please forward your resume to dwicks@synergishr.com

If you require assistance or an accommodation in the application or employment process, please contact us at dwicks@synergishr.com.

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