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Periodic Labs · 3 months ago

LLM Inference Engineer

positionMenlo Park, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level

Periodic Labs is an AI and physical sciences lab focused on building advanced models for scientific discoveries. The role involves integrating, optimizing, and operating large-scale inference systems to support AI scientific research, including maintaining high-performance serving infrastructure and collaborating with researchers and engineers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine Learning
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Responsibilities

Integrate, optimize, and operate large-scale inference systems to power AI scientific research
Build and maintain high-performance serving infrastructure that delivers low-latency, high-throughput access to large language models across thousands of GPUs
Work closely with researchers and engineers to integrate cutting-edge inference into large-scale reinforcement learning workloads
Build tools and directly support frontier-scale experiments to make Periodic Labs the world’s best AI + science lab
Make contributions to open-source LLM inference software

Qualification

Optimizing inferenceHigh-performance model servingDistributed inference techniquesGPU utilization optimizationCollaboration with researchers

Required

Experience with optimizing inference for the largest open-source model
Experience with high-performance model serving frameworks such as TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang
Experience with distributed inference techniques (tensor/expert/pipeline parallelism, speculative decoding, KV cache management)
Experience with optimizing GPU utilization and latency for reinforcement learning

Company

Periodic Labs

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Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning.
dateFounded in 2025
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://periodic.com/

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Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$300M
2025-09-30Seed· $300M

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