Inferact
Engineering Manager
San Francisco · Mid
H1B sponsorship available$200k-$400kDetected 9 days ago
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsKubernetesMachine LearningPyTorchLogisticsPerformance ManagementResearchLeadershipMentoring
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About the role
- Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster.
- We're looking for an Engineering Manager to help scale a world-class, senior-heavy engineering organization working at the frontier of AI inference.
- This is a deeply technical management role.
Responsibilities
- You will own team execution, hiring, coaching, prioritization, and operating rhythm, while staying close enough to the work to earn the trust of engineers solving hard systems problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
- Demonstrated experience managing strong software engineers in technically demanding systems, infrastructure, ML systems, distributed systems, or performance-oriented environments.
- Ability to translate ambiguous company priorities into clear team goals, sequencing, ownership, and execution plans while maintaining urgency in a fast-changing startup environment.
- 2+ years of management experience with 10+ reports.
Nice to have
- Experience leading teams working on AI / ML infrastructure, model serving, distributed systems, GPU infrastructure, compilers, performance engineering, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Experience managing senior, staff, principal, research-adjacent, or PhD engineers in an environment where technical credibility and autonomy are especially important.
- Familiarity with inference systems and adjacent technologies such as vLLM, SGLang, PyTorch, CUDA / Triton, Kubernetes, distributed serving, or accelerator infrastructure.
- Experience partnering closely with founders or engineering executives in an early-stage company where priorities, team boundaries, and organizational needs evolve quickly.
- Built or scaled a small, unusually high-talent engineering team where the technical surface area was specialized and the quality bar was extremely high.
- Managed teams spanning multiple technical specialties, geographies, or time zones while preserving strong ownership and communication.
- Helped establish engineering management practices from an early stage rather than inheriting a mature management system.
- Contributed to open-source infrastructure, AI systems, developer tools, or technically ambitious products used by external engineers.
Skills
- Skills and Qualifications
Compensation
- Depending on background, skills, and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $400,000 USD + equity.
Benefits
- Inferact offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits as well as 401(k) company match.
Company info
- About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to help scale a world-class, senior-heavy engineering organization working at the frontier of AI inference.
- You will partner closely with engineering and company leadership to turn company priorities into clear technical direction, remove blockers, improve how the team works, and help every engineer do the highest-leverage work of their career.
- Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis.
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