Member of Technical Staff — Model Optimization and Inference (Experienced)

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Nuance CommunicationsSeattle, Washingtonfull-timestaff

$250,000 USD

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end inference optimization across LLMs, audio models, and diffusion-based components.
  • Implement and tune KV cache strategies for long-context conversations, including eviction, compression, and memory-efficient attention.
  • Evaluate, deploy, and extend inference serving frameworks like vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM for specific workloads.
  • Profile and benchmark end-to-end latency and throughput; identify and systematically eliminate bottlenecks.
  • Build internal tooling for faster and more rigorous optimization, including profiling viewers and end-to-end inference test harnesses.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Equity

Culture

Deep Work FocusCustomer-ObsessedStartup EnergyCollaborative SpaceInclusive Hiring

Requirements

Regions: Us

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About Nuance Communications
Industry: ai
Size: startup

Nuance Labs is a Series A company building photorealistic, real-time AI avatars with emotional intelligence that can listen, speak, react, interrupt, and respond like a real person. They focus on developing foundation models for full-duplex audiovisual AI to achieve natural conversation with sub-500ms response times.

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Compensation
Base salary: $250,000 USD
Equity: Meaningful equity structured for long-term ownership