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Staff AI Inference and Acceleration Engineer

Figure · San Jose, CA
$180K - $275KOpen 141 daysNo degree requiredLeadPythonC++AICUDA

Staff AI Inference and Acceleration Engineer is open at Figure in San Jose, CA. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $275K. Posted on Jun 26, 2026, and still on Figure’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

Own the on-board inference architecture — mapping models to available accelerators (NPU, GPU, DSP, CPU) based on latency, power, and memory budgets. Partition inference workloads across heterogeneous compute resources, balancing real-time performance with power and thermal constraints. Define and maintain a system-level compute budget across all inference tasks running on the robot. Evaluate next-generation…

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