Mirendil

Member of Technical Staff, Inference at Mirendil (San Francisco, CA)

Mirendil· San Francisco, CA·

Role details

Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

Mirendil Mirendil is a tech-first company focused on solving core bottlenecks that unlock step-change acceleration across science and technology. Our first goal is to democratize frontier AI R&D across scientific disciplines. We are building a frontier AI research company and training our own models end-to-end.

The Role

We are looking for an engineer to own the inference systems that power our models in production and research. You'll work across the full inference stack, from serving infrastructure down to hardware-level optimization. Some example areas you might work on (not limited to):

  • Design and build high-throughput, low-latency inference serving systems for frontier models, optimizing for both research iteration and production deployment
  • Optimize inference performance across GPU and accelerator hardware - maximizing FLOPs utilization, memory bandwidth, and compute efficiency for large-scale models
  • Enable and extend distributed inference frameworks (e.g. vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM) to support novel architectures, long-context workloads, and agentic inference patterns
  • Implement and validate inference-time optimizations: speculative decoding, quantization, KV cache management, and batching strategies
  • Build observability and reliability infrastructure so the team can measure latency, throughput, and cost across every serving configuration
  • Partner directly with teams to bring new model architectures and post-training techniques into production quickly

If you're excited about pushing the performance limits of frontier model inference, we'd love to hear from you.

We offer a base salary of $300,000–$400,000 USD and a meaningful equity grant, depending on experience and background, along with competitive benefits.

Why work at Mirendil

  • Engineering culture: “Small team, singular focus. We hire to compound, not to grow.” The team of ~20 operates with high autonomy and ownership.
  • Cutting-edge work: Opportunity to work on one of the most ambitious AI projects – automating the very process of AI research.
  • Team composition: Colleagues from Anthropic, xAI, DeepMind, OpenAI; founders known for foundational contributions (SAM optimizer, Blueshift/Mirerva).
  • Work environment: Based in San Francisco; likely in-office given the intensity of the work (remote/hybrid policy not publicly detailed).
  • Notable perks: Direct exposure to frontier model training and infrastructure; chance to shape a company from its earliest stage.

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