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Applied AI Research Engineer is a AI Research Engineer role (full-time). with Beam. in REMOTE, NEW YORK, US. Compensation shown: $140K–$200K. Imported listing (source: zerogtalent.com). Apply on the employer's site (zerogtalent.com).
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REMOTE · NEW YORK · US
$140K–$200K
Full-time
SENIOR
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Beam, an ultrafast AI inference platform backed by Y Combinator and Tiger Global, is hiring an Applied AI Research Engineer. The role involves owning inference research to lower cost per token and latency, including low-level optimization techniques like speculative decoding, quantization, and KV-cache management. You will work directly with customers and have high autonomy to drive platform improvements.
Responsibilities
- Own inference research hands-on.
- Find ways to lower cost per token and latency on customer workloads.
- Low-level inference optimization (speculative decoding, quantization, KV-cache, memory management).
- Work directly with customers to optimize their production workloads.
- Apply learnings to platform as product improvements.
- High-level autonomy to identify high-impact opportunities and guide platform direction.
Requirements
- 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.
Beam
San Francisco · US · 17+ employees
Beam is a construction and financial management software company that helps teams estimate, invoice, manage expenses, budget, and pay bills. The company uses AI tools to automate spreadsheets and paperwork for contractors.
