DDN · 1 month ago
Senior/Staff AI Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $250K/yrDDN is a company with deep credibility in high-performance infrastructure, and they are seeking an AI Engineer to build the AI infrastructure layer that supports real-world model serving and inference. The role focuses on optimizing production AI systems, improving performance across various pathways, and solving engineering problems related to AI infrastructure.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataEnterprise SoftwareAI InfrastructureData StoragePredictive Analytics
Responsibilities
Build and optimize LLM serving and inference systems for production environments
Improve performance across GPU and CPU pathways
Work on KV cache, memory, storage, and throughput bottlenecks
Design and scale systems that support RAG and retrieval-heavy AI workloads
Contribute to infrastructure where storage architecture and systems efficiency materially affect AI performance
Solve engineering problems at the intersection of AI, high-performance systems, and distributed infrastructure
Qualification
Required
An engineer who has spent meaningful time building or optimizing production AI systems, not just experimenting with models
Someone who understands how inference performance is shaped by the interaction between compute, memory, storage, and serving architecture
Deep hands-on experience working close to the systems layer — for example, improving how workloads run across GPU and CPU resources, reducing bottlenecks, or tuning infrastructure for better throughput and latency
Evidence of real ownership in areas like model serving, retrieval, caching, storage, or distributed performance, rather than purely application-layer AI work
The ability to move comfortably between architecture decisions and hands-on implementation, especially in environments where efficiency and scale matter
A background that suggests you can operate in technically demanding environments, whether that comes from AI infrastructure, high-performance systems, storage platforms, or adjacent distributed systems work
Preferred
PhD preferred, but far less important than having built serious systems in the real world
Company
DDN
DDN is the world’s leading AI and data intelligence company, powering the world’s most demanding AI workloads by keeping GPUs fed, efficient, and productive—at massive scale—so organizations can train, checkpoint, and infer faster with less footprint and power while achieving tremendous ROI from their AI investments.
Founded in 1998
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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78%
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Engineering and Development
Accounting and Finance
Management and Executive
Product Management
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2025 (5)
2024 (3)
2023 (2)
2022 (4)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$309.9MKey Investors
Blackstone Group
2025-01-09Private Equity· $300M
2002-01-02Series A· $9.9M
Leadership Team
Alex Bouzari
Chairman, Co-Founder and CEO
Moiz Kohari
VP of Enterprise AI & Data Intelligence
Recent News
2026-07-03
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