Member of Technical Staff - RL Inference

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About THE Role

The RL infrastructure team is looking for an engineer to help with low precision RL training and inference.

Responsibilities

• • Design and optimize our inference stack for all shapes of RL workloads at SpaceXAI, from small scale ablations to production training runs.

• • Analyze, profile and address performance bottlenecks in large scale RL systems

• • Work closely with the modelling team to efficiently implement novel RL techniques and algorithms

• BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• • Experience in building, debugging, and optimizing efficiency of large-scale distributed systems

• • Experience in LLM inference

• • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C++ and/or Rust; frameworks such as PyTorch, Jax, CUDA

• • Willingness to dive deep and solve hardcore problems at all levels of the stack

• PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• • Strong knowledge in quantization and numerics in LLM inference and training

• • Experience in developing inference engines, e.g. SGLang, vLLM

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