🇺🇸vLLM jobs in California
157 open roles mentioning vLLM in California as of Nov 15, 2026. Inferact, CoreWeave, SambaNova, Baseten and Sciforium have the most. 4 are remote and the median advertised salary is $248K.
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Skills asked for in vLLM roles in California
Job titles in vLLM roles in California
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- Senior Software Engineer II, InferenceCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$182K - $242KSeniorGoPythonC++
- Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platforms and Agentic & ML SystemsSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$230K - $270KHybridSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Software EngineerSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$225K - $280KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, PlatformBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$194K - $343KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Director, Product Management, AI InnovationNetskope · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California, United States$154K - $312KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Product Manager, Inference ExperienceBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KHybridMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Product Manager, Inference PlatformBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KHybridMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Infrastructure Engineer, RL Post-trainingPreference Model · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $350KGCPLLMPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff - Research Engineer, RL EnvironmentsPreference Model · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $350KPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Platform EngineerPreference Model · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $350KPythonDockerGCP
- Principal Solutions Specialist, InferenceCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Bellevue, WA / Dallas, TX / Livingston, NJ / Manhattan, N…$177K - $237KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMKubernetes
- GPU Kernel EngineerSciforium · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$190K - $250KPythonC++LLM
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Model LifecycleCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$250K - $300KLead and aboveGoPythonMachine Learning
- Sr. Software Engineer, Training/Inference (C++)xAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$220K - $357KSeniorRustC++LLM
- Member of Technical Staff, Product SecurityInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchCI/CDKubernetes
- Manager, Solutions ArchitectBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridDockerMachine LearningLLM
- Machine Learning Engineer - New GradSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$131K - $197KJuniorPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Senior ML Engineer, Developer Relations EngineeringCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$180K - $220KSeniorPythonGCPAzure
- Principal Place and Route (PnR) EngineerSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…—Lead and abovePythonC++LLM
- Senior Principal Model Bring-up EngineerSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$208K - $312KLead and abovePythonC++LLM
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $485KRustGoC++
- Cloud Platform Engineer - New GradSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$131K - $197KJuniorGoPythonDocker
- ML Infrastructure Engineer - New GradSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$131K - $197KJuniorPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Engineering Manager, Ray DataAnyscale · 🇺🇸San Francisco$267K - $375KPythonGCPAzure
- AI Infrastructure EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonC++GCP
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Inference - USAInworld AI · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, USA$250K - $300KSeniorRustPythonC++
- Research EngineerOutset · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $240KHybridPythonSQLMachine Learning
- AI Performance Engineer - New GradSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$131K - $197KJuniorPythonC++Machine Learning
- Knowledge ArchitectCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$134K - $179KLLMJiraKubernetes
- Research Engineer - RL InfrastructurePrimeIntellect · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PyTorchCUDALangChain
- Research Intern, Frontier Speculative Decoding (Summer 2027)Together AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco—InternMachine LearningLLMReinforcement learning
- Research Engineer - InferencePrimeIntellect · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonPyTorchCUDA
- Machine Learning Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer: Training Clusters & Inference CloudZyphra · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonDockerTerraform
- Principal Product ManagerSambaNova · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$190K - $230KLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Research Scientist - Post-TrainingPluralis Research · 🇺🇸San Francisco—RemotePythonLLMPyTorch
- Engineering ManagerInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchKubernetesCUDA
- Engineering Manager, Inference RouterCerebras · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA—HybridC++.NETMachine Learning
- Staff Product Manager, AI InferenceCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Bellevue, WA / Sunnyvale, CA$207K - $275KLead and aboveLLMKubernetesAI
- Senior Account Solutions ArchitectCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA · +1 more location$182K - $242KSeniorPythonGCPAzure
- Forward Deployed Engineer - AI InferenceFriendliai · 🇺🇸San Francisco—HybridDockerTerraformGCP
- Strategic Finance LeadInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco—Lead and aboveSQLvLLMData quality
- ControllerInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco—CPAvLLMERP
- LLM Inference Systems EngineerHippocratic AI · 🇺🇸Menlo Park, CA—PythonC++LLM
- Engineering Manager, Inference PerformanceBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$240K - $270KHybridMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Senior HPC & GPU Infrastructure EngineerSciforium · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$150K - $220KSeniorPythonTerraformMachine Learning
- Software Engineer, InferenceSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KLLMMLOpsvLLM
- Software Engineer - Inference PlatformBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $360KHybridMachine LearningLLMCI/CD
- Software Engineer - Inference PerformanceBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $360KHybridGoPythonC++
- Member of Technical Staff, Vulnerability ManagementInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KvLLMLinux administrationApplication security
- Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed EngineerInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KGoPythonTypeScript
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Who is hiring for vLLM roles in California
What vLLM roles in California pay, by level
| Level in the title | Median advertised salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| No level in the title | $268K | 66 |
| Senior | $218K | 23 |
| Lead and above | $256K | 24 |
Medians of the midpoints of advertised yearly US-dollar ranges; a level needs at least 15 such roles. Advertised, not verified pay.
Questions about vLLM jobs in California
- How many vLLM jobs in California are open right now?
- There are 157 open vLLM jobs in California at 51 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 11 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most vLLM jobs in California?
- Right now the most openings are at Inferact (23), CoreWeave (18), Baseten (12), SambaNova (12) and Sciforium (8). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote vLLM jobs in California?
- 4 of the 157 open vLLM jobs in California (3%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- What do vLLM jobs in California pay?
- The median advertised salary is $248K, based on 117 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $212K and $300K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay. Most employers here are technology companies, so the figures run above the wider market for the same work.
- Is it hard to get one of the vLLM jobs in California?
- 7 of the 157 open vLLM jobs in California (4%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 64 postings that state experience, the median asks for 5 years. 51 companies are hiring and 11 roles were posted in the last seven days. Matching your resume to the skills each posting names helps most; the free resume builder shows the match.
- How is AI changing vLLM jobs in California?
- 136 of the 157 open vLLM jobs in California (87%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often LLM, PyTorch, Machine Learning. Employers still list 157 such roles today at 51 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do vLLM jobs in California ask for?
- Most often vLLM (100%), LLM (77%), Python (64%), PyTorch (45%), Kubernetes (43%) of the 157 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in vLLM jobs in California?
- Member of Technical Staff (19), Software Engineer (16), Research Engineer (6), Senior Software Engineer (5), Staff Software Engineer (5): the most common titles among the 157 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are vLLM jobs in California in demand in 2026?
- 157 vLLM jobs in California are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 51 companies, 0.1% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 11 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $248K. 4 (3%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for vLLM jobs in California?
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