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# ML Runtime Engineer

- **Company:** Fractile
- **Location:** Bristol, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Programming Tools, Device Drivers, Firmware, Software Engineering, Build Management
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2845713524-ml-runtime-engineer

## About the Role

You have solid experience with ML inference at scale, including multi-user serving, and a deep understanding of paged attention and inference engines such as vLLM. You are familiar with the key components of the ML software ecosystem and bring strong software engineering skills with an instinct for clean, maintainable systems. You care about depth of knowledge and have a genuine interest in the problem space - not just in shipping, but in understanding why things work the way they do., * Solid experience with ML inference at scale, including multi-user serving

 * Deep understanding of paged attention and inference engines such as vLLM
 * Familiarity with key components of the ML software ecosystem
 * Strong software engineering skills and an instinct for clean, maintainable systems, * Experience with Rust
 * Having built your own inference engine from scratch
 * A degree in Computer Science or a related field

## Description

About the Software organisation at Fractile

Developer Experience sits within the Software organisation at Fractile, which is responsible for developing a full software stack for our groundbreaking AI inference systems. That's everything from ML compilers, device drivers and systems firmware, application level runtime and ecosystem integrations, ML and compute libraries, great developer tooling and a full portfolio of simulators, through to datacenter scale workload deployment solutions. At Fractile, we know that a fantastic software stack is a critical and central part of any AI inference solution and it sits at the heart of everything we're doing.

About the team and role

The ML Runtime team is responsible for integrating Fractile's AI accelerators with the latest inference frameworks and building the runtime stack that makes them fly. We work on genuinely hard problems - KV cache management, scalable multi-user inference, and the internals of transformer model execution - alongside a collaborative team that values curiosity and rigour equally.

As an ML Runtime Engineer you will integrate Fractile's AI acceleration hardware with leading inference engines including vLLM and SGLang, research and build proof-of-concept KV cache management implementations tailored to our hardware, and work closely with the broader runtime team to design and build a scalable reference inference engine. You will focus primarily on the transformer ML architecture and share your expertise to help shape the direction of our runtime stack.


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