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Senior​/AI Engineer

Job in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, 95828, USA
Listing for: Ddn
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-25
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), AI Reliability/ Performance Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 140000 - 200000 USD Yearly USD 140000.00 200000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior/Staff AI Engineer

What you’ll do

  • Build and optimize LLM serving and inference systems for production environments

  • Improve performance across GPU and CPU pathways

  • Work on KV cache, memory, storage, and throughput bottlenecks

  • Design and scale systems that support RAG and retrieval-heavy AI workloads

  • Contribute to infrastructure where storage architecture and systems efficiency materially affect AI performance

  • Solve engineering problems at the intersection of AI, high-performance systems, and distributed infrastructure

What we’re looking for
  • An engineer who has spent meaningful time building or optimizing production AI systems, not just experimenting with models

  • Someone who understands how inference performance is shaped by the interaction between compute, memory, storage, and serving architecture

  • Deep hands‑on experience working close to the systems layer — for example, improving how workloads run across GPU and CPU resources, reducing bottlenecks, or tuning infrastructure for better throughput and latency

  • Evidence of real ownership in areas like model serving, retrieval, caching, storage, or distributed performance, rather than purely application‑layer AI work

  • The ability to move comfortably between architecture decisions and hands‑on implementation, especially in environments where efficiency and scale matter

  • A background that suggests you can operate in technically demanding environments, whether that comes from AI infrastructure, high‑performance systems, storage platforms, or adjacent distributed systems work

  • PhD preferred, but far less important than having built serious systems in the real world

Why this role is compelling
  • This is not a “prompt engineering” job.

  • This is not an “AI wrapper” job.

  • This is not a generic backend role with AI sprinkled on top.

  • This is a chance to work on the infrastructure that determines whether modern AI systems are fast, scalable, efficient, and commercially viable.

  • If you want to work on the real mechanics of AI performance — serving, retrieval, compute efficiency, memory behavior, storage architecture, and inference at scale — this is where that work happens.

Who will love this role
  • Engineers who enjoy deep systems problems

  • Builders who care about performance, scale, and architecture

  • People who want to work where AI meets infrastructure

  • Candidates who would rather solve hard technical bottlenecks than ship surface‑level AI features

Who should not apply

This role is not for:

  • Purely academic researchers without meaningful production ownership

  • Generic software engineers without clear AI systems or inference depth

  • Candidates focused mainly on prompt engineering or lightweight application integrations

  • MLOps generalists who have not worked deeply on serving, storage, or performance‑critical AI systems

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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