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# Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Abridge Partners, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Nvidia CUDA, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Ansible, Tensorflow, Toolchain, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Backend, Kubernetes, Machine Learning Operations, Api Design, Terraform
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/machine-learning-infrastructure-engineer-abridge-7172051

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in building and deploying machine learning models in production environments.
 * Deep understanding of container orchestration and distributed systems architecture
 * Expertise in Kubernetes administration, including custom resource definitions, operators, and cluster management
 * Experience developing APIs and managing distributed systems for both batch and real-time workloads
 * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interface between research and product engineering

Ideally, You Have

 * Expertise with model serving frameworks such as NVIDIA Triton Server, VLLM, TRT-LLM and so on.
 * Expertise with ML toolchains such as PyTorch, Tensorflow or distributed training and inference libraries.
 * Familiarity with GPU cluster management and CUDA optimization
 * Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps practices
 * Experience with container registries, image optimization, and multi-stage builds for ML workloads
 * Experience orchestrating across ASR models or LLM models for building various GenAI applications

## Description

As an ML Infrastructure Engineer at Abridge, you'll play a pivotal role in building and optimizing the core inference infrastructure that powers our machine learning models. Your work will be instrumental in enhancing the scalability, efficiency, and performance of our AI-driven solutions. You will work with our Infrastructure and Research teams to build, deploy, optimize and orchestrate across our AI models.

What You'll Do

 * Design, deploy and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters for AI model inference and training
 * Develop, optimize, and maintain ML model serving infrastructure, ensuring high-performance and low-latency.
 * Collaborate with ML and product teams to scale backend infrastructure for AI-driven products, focusing on model deployment, throughput optimization, and compute efficiency.
 * Optimize compute-heavy workflows and enhance GPU utilization for ML workloads.
 * Build a robust model API orchestration system
 * Collaborate with leadership to define and implement strategies for scaling infrastructure as the company grows, ensuring long-term efficiency and performance.


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