Inference SW Engineer

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Fort Collins, CO, United States
28 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
1 year minimum
Compensation
$137,000.0 - $315,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Multitier Architecture Artificial Intelligence C++ (Programming Language) Computational Fluid Dynamics Cloud Computing Nvidia CUDA Computer Programming Creo Elements/Pro (Computer-Aided Design Software) Software Debugging InfiniBand Python (Programming Language) Remote Direct Memory Access
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Software Engineering Software Technical Review Private Cloud Environment Enterprise Software Applications Retrieval-Augmented Generation Large Language Models Discretization Kubernetes Information Technology SGLang TensorRT Nim (Programming Language) VLLM Model Inference KServe

Job description

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office., · Design, implement, and own major components of the LLM serving deployment, including engine integration, continuous batching, KV cache management and reuse, and quantized execution

· Partner with inference engineering teams and contribute to improving time-to-first-token, inter-token latency, throughput per GPU, and P95/P99 tail latency

· Build and operate distributed execution capabilities, including disaggregated prefill/decode, tensor and pipeline parallelism, and KV cache offload across GPU memory, host memory, and RDMA-attached storage

· Evaluate emerging runtimes, quantization schemes, speculative decoding, and mixture-of-experts serving, and make well-supported recommendations on adoption

· Contribute to the orchestration layer supporting the runtime, including model admission, GPU scheduling and partitioning, cache-aware request routing, and autoscaling

· Triage and resolve customer issues end-to-end, identifying root causes and improving systems and processes to prevent recurrence

· Provide insightful code and design reviews, mentor team members, and lead by example on engineering practices within the team Knowledge and Skills Required

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Requirements

· Strong understanding of inference internals, including continuous batching, paged attention, KV cache reuse and prefix caching, chunked prefill, quantization, and speculative decoding

· Working knowledge of tensor and pipeline parallelism, NCCL collective operations, and the GPU memory hierarchy and interconnect characteristics that govern them

· Advanced proficiency in Kubernetes platform architectures, including operators, custom resources, controllers, and scheduling

· Strong programming proficiency in Go and Python, with the ability to read, debug, and profile C++/CUDA using tools such as Nsight

· Familiar with debugging/profiling multi-tier application workloads such as RAG, Agents

· Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving abilities

Preferred

· Upstream contribution to vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, llm-d, LMCache, or KServe

· Disaggregated prefill/decode serving, or KV cache offload and reuse at scale

· RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, InfiniBand, or RoCE

· MIG, fractional GPU allocation, and multi-tenant GPU isolation

· On-premises, air-gapped, or regulated enterprise software delivery Experience and Education

· Minimum of 8 years of experience in Software Engineering, including 1-2+ years working directly on LLM inference runtimes or production model serving

· Degree in Computer Science or related field

Benefits & conditions

Be an Early Applicant In-Office Fort Collins, CO, USA 137K-315K Annually Senior level In-Office Fort Collins, CO, USA 137K-315K Annually Senior level Designs and owns LLM inference runtime components, including engine integration, continuous batching, KV cache management, quantized execution, distributed execution, and Kubernetes orchestration. Improves latency, throughput, GPU utilization, and autoscaling across enterprise deployments. Evaluates emerging inference technologies, resolves customer issues, contributes to architecture and code reviews, mentors engineers, and leads engineering practices. Requires expertise in LLM serving, Kubernetes, Go, Python, C++/CUDA, GPU systems, and production model serving. The summary above was generated by AI Senior Inference SW Engineer, “The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

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About the company

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE., HPE’s Private Cloud AI organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve the model runtime within HPE AI Essentials, the inference platform used by enterprises to operate large language models on infrastructure they own, including air-gapped and sovereign environments. The core engineering challenge in this domain is not model deployment but sustained execution efficiency: achieving low tail latency and high GPU utilization on customer-owned hardware of varying generation and configuration. In this role you will design and implement key components of that runtime - engine integration, batching, KV cache management, and distributed execution - together with the Kubernetes orchestration layer that supports it.

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