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As an Applied AI/ML Engineer, you'll ship AI-powered products end-to-end on top of our growing GPU inference fleet — owning everything from serving low-latency inference to standing up reinforcement-learning post-training pipelines. This is a builder's role: you take an idea from prototype to production, tune it for throughput and cost on real GPUs, and iterate fast on customer and internal feedback.\nYou should be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, navigating ambiguity, and defaulting to a strong bias for action.\nWhat You'll DoEnd-to-End AI Product Delivery: Own AI features and products from prototype through production — model selection, serving, evaluation, and iteration — shipping working software rather than research artifacts.\nInference Serving: Deploy and optimize LLM inference across the fleet using vLLM and SGLang. Tune continuous batching, KV-cache management, quantization, speculative decoding, and multi-model routing to maximize throughput and minimize latency and cost per token.\nRL & Post-Training Harnesses: Build and operate reinforcement-learning and post-training pipelines using slime (Megatron-LM + SGLang) and Prime Intellect (prime-rl + the Environments Hub / verifiers). This includes reward and verifier design, rollout orchestration, weight synchronization, and keeping long-running training stable.\nEvaluation & Iteration: Build eval harnesses and benchmarks that measure quality, throughput, and cost together, and use them to drive fast, data-informed iteration.\nWork Across the Stack: Partner with Infrastructure on GPU scheduling and fleet utilization, and with Product on what to build next and why.\nRequirements\n3+ years shipping ML/AI systems to production\n\nHands-on experience serving LLM inference with vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM\n\nExperience with RL / post-training methods (GRPO, PPO, DPO, or SFT), or strong adjacent experience and a clear desire to go deep here\n\nStrong Python and PyTorch\n\nWorking understanding of GPU execution: batching, memory, and basic CUDA concepts\n\nComfort operating in ambiguity with a strong bias for action\n\nNice to Have\nDirect experience with slime, prime-rl, the verifiers library, or Megatron-LM\n\nDistributed training experience (FSDP, TP/PP/DP parallelism)\n\nQuantization (FP8/INT8), P/D disaggregation, or speculative decoding\n\nExperience with verifiable inference or large-scale distributed systems\n\nKubernetes and container-based deployment\n\nFamiliarity with GPU fleet orchestration (Ray, SkyPilot, Slurm)\n\nAdditional Requirements\nCandidates must include a public GitHub profile in their application.\n\nThe GitHub profile should demonstrate a minimum of 1 year of activity/history.\n\nApplications that do not include a GitHub profile, or show insufficient activity, will not be considered.\n\nBenefitsAt Boundless, we take care of our people, because building the future of AI compute starts with an empowered team. 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