RESEARCHER, EFFICIENT INFERENCE is open at Makermaker.ai in San Francisco. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $172K. Posted on Sep 25, 2026, and still on Makermaker.ai’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You'll be researching making models efficient: quantization, speculative decoding, sparse and structured attention, distillation, mixture-of-experts inference, and the training-time techniques that make those methods possible. The work spans algorithm design, careful evaluation, and pushing methods to where they actually run. This is a senior research role with a clear engineering edge. You'll spend time at the…
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