--- title: 'Graphic Designer at Inferact' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/graphic-designer-inferact-san-francisco-vrkzf7acr3fg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Graphic Designer at Inferact - **Company:** Inferact - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inferact/55929263-5d1c-49f9-ace3-6279853ed949 ## Job description ## Overview Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. 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. ## About the Role We're looking for a Graphic Designer to own the visual system for vLLM and Inferact across launches, technical content, partnerships, events, presentations, and web surfaces. This is a hands-on design role for someone who can move quickly from technical concepts to polished diagrams, campaign assets, booth graphics, decks, and live Webflow pages. You will become the day-to-day owner of the brand system while building reusable design infrastructure for engineers and marketers. 30-60-90 Day Milestones 30 Days: Outside Counsel Alignment & Contracting Intake - Own every blog diagram, partnership announcement kit, social card, and preview image that ships, starting with vLLM blogs and upcoming partner launches. - Take over brand guidelines and Figma files and become the day-to-day contact for the agency. - Produce booth and print files for Inferact conference attendance and vLLM meetups. 60 Days: Frontier AI & Regulatory Strategy - Own the brand system across the website, decks, booths, merchandise, social, and docs with a design request intake and turnaround standard. - Build and publish website pages in Webflow, starting with event pages, partnership announcement pages, blog templates, and careers. - Build the vLLM technical diagram library in Figma that engineers can reuse in talks and blogs. - Own the talk slide template and sales deck design in partnership with the Technical Product Marketing Manager. 90 Days: Scalable Legal Infrastructure - Present a 2027 plan for the vLLM visual identity, motion and video style, conference brand, and Figma design system for marketing surfaces. - Own the website roadmap, including product pages, the public benchmark dashboard home, and conference sites for vLLM Conference US and China. - Set the direction for how the vLLM and Inferact visual identities relate and diverge. - Define future design capacity needs, including whether to add a second designer, motion designer, or expanded agency scope. ## Skills and Qualifications Minimum qualifications: - Strong working proficiency in Figma for brand systems, technical diagrams, reusable components, and marketing design. - Strong working proficiency in Webflow, with the ability to build, publish, and maintain live website pages without developer assistance. - Portfolio demonstrating complex technical diagrams, architecture flowcharts, and brand identities for developer, infrastructure, AI, or B2B technology companies. - Experience creating launch graphics, partner announcement assets, social cards, presentation templates, event graphics, booth files, and print-ready collateral. - Ability to translate technical concepts from engineers and product teams into clear, polished visual communication. - Strong systems mindset with the ability to create templates, libraries, guidelines, intake processes, and reusable design infrastructure. Preferred qualifications: - Experience designing for AI, developer tools, cloud, infrastructure, open-source software, or other highly technical products. - Experience owning visual systems across web, decks, events, social, documentation, and merchandise. - Experience partnering with design agencies while maintaining internal speed, consistency, and quality. - Experience with motion, video, technical illustration, conference branding, or developer-facing data visualization. Bonus points if you have: - Experience building a design system or brand function from 0 to 1 at a high-growth startup. - Experience creating reusable diagram libraries that engineers use in talks, blogs, and documentation. - Comfort using modern AI design tools to accelerate ideation, asset production, and iteration. Logistics - Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site) - Compensation: Compensation determined based on background, skills, and experience. Offers include competitive base salary & meaningful equity. - Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis. - Benefits: Inferact offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits as well as 401(k) company match. ## About Inferact ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Inferact is a startup founded by the creators of vLLM, the leading open-source LLM inference engine, dedicated to making AI inference cheaper and faster at global scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $150M in seed funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with a second office in Singapore) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Simon Mo (CEO), Woosuk Kwon, Kaichao You (Chief Scientist), Roger Wang, Joseph Gonzalez, Ion Stoica ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / open-source inference engine for large language models - **Target customers**: AI labs, hyperscalers, startups, and enterprises deploying large-scale AI models (B2B, primarily technical teams) - **Mission**: Grow vLLM as the world’s AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. ## Products & Services - **vLLM (Open-Source Inference Engine)**: The core product – an open-source LLM inference engine that supports 500+ model architectures and runs on 200+ accelerator types. Inferact stewards and supercharges vLLM, with all optimizations flowing back to the community. - **Managed Inference Infrastructure (in development)**: Inferact is building infrastructure to absorb the complexity of deploying frontier models at scale, aiming to make it as simple as spinning up a serverless database. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $150M (seed round, announced 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), Redpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter Capital, Sequoia Capital, The House Fund, GC&H Investments, and others. Partnerships include NVIDIA, Red Hat, DigitalOcean, and Cohere. - **Growth Signals**: - $150M seed round – one of the largest seed rounds in AI infrastructure. - 22 employees with +27.3% monthly headcount growth. - vLLM ecosystem: 2,000+ contributors, 500+ model architectures, 200+ accelerator types. - Day-zero support for new model architectures (e.g., Cohere’s Command A+) and hardware integrations. - Active hiring with 5 open positions across inference, performance, kernel engineering, and cloud orchestration. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep ecosystem moat**: vLLM is the de facto standard open-source inference engine, with a massive community and integrations across models and hardware that took years to build. - **Founding team credibility**: Creators and core maintainers of vLLM, with experience deploying at frontier scale (research and production). - **Hardware-software co-optimization**: Positioned at the intersection of model innovation and hardware diversity, enabling day-zero compatibility and performance optimizations. - **Open-source commitment**: All improvements flow back to vLLM, ensuring community trust and rapid adoption. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Push vLLM performance further, deepen support for emerging model architectures (MoE, multimodal, agentic), expand hardware coverage (200+ accelerators), and build managed infrastructure to simplify deployment. - **Growth direction**: Close the capability gap between models and serving systems; absorb complexity so teams can focus on innovation rather than infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: High-caliber engineering team with roots in vLLM, PyTorch, and top AI labs. Emphasis on open-source contribution and cutting-edge inference research. - **Work policy**: Hybrid with a San Francisco HQ; at least one open role (Member of Technical Staff, Exceptional Generalist) is listed as Remote. - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI inference, directly impact the open-source ecosystem, and collaborate with partners like NVIDIA, Red Hat, and major AI labs. - **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on systems engineering, kernel optimization, and cloud orchestration – ideal for engineers passionate about performance and infrastructure. ## Sources 1. [inferact.ai](https://inferact.ai/) 2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inferact) 3. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/inferact) 4. [Sequoia Capital](https://sequoiacap.com/companies/inferact/) 5. 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