ML Engineer, Inference Optimization is open at Build Ai in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $320K. Posted on Aug 30, 2026, and still on Build Ai’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Inference is about 90% of compute spend. Economics are heavily driven by inference optimization. We’re hiring someone to make inference cheaper, faster, and good enough that we can scale the data engine and the product without the GPU bill eating the company. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Own inference performance: latency, throughput, and cost per unit of work (tokens, frames, or jobs) - Cut the 90% compute line: kernels…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Build Ai’s careers page.
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