Applied AI Research Engineer

Beam is an ultrafast AI inference platform. We built a serverless runtime that launches GPU-backed containers in less than 1 second and quickly scales out to thousands of GPUs. Developers use our platform to serve apps to millions of users around the globe. We're backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, and prominent developer-tool founders, including the founder of Snyk and former CTO of GitHub. About the Role We’re looking to hire someone to own inference research hands-on and find ways to lower cost per token and latency on our customer workloads. Low-level inference optimization, from speculative decoding, quantization, KV-cache and memory management Work directly with customers to optimize their production workloads, and apply your learnings to our platform as product improvements High-level of autonomy to find the highest upside bets and guide the future of our inference platform based on your work Skills & Experience Systems or research background in LLM inference Deep understanding of LLM serving, from the kernel to the scheduler History of shipping products or research that people use in production-like scenarios, whether academic or industry Excited to collaborate closely with customers Enthusiasm for developer tools, cloud native technologies, and open source software Benefits Competitive salary and meaningful equity Join a fast-growing pre-series A company at the ground floor Health, dental, and vision benefits with 90% coverage for you and 50% for dependents Opportunities to participate in events across the cloud native community Fitness stipend, learning budget, and much, much more