Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer is open at Crusoe in San Francisco, CA - US. The posting gives a salary of $215K - $260K. Posted on Sep 8, 2026, and still on Crusoe’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You will spend your time making large language models run faster, cheaper, and more reliably in production. That means owning the inference stack end to end: profiling where time and cost go, bringing modern optimization techniques into real deployments, and getting deep into the serving code when the defaults are not good enough. This is core systems and performance work on some of the most demanding models in use…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Crusoe’s careers page.
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