# Lead Software Engineer, Model Serving Platform

Sciforium is an AI infrastructure company developing next-generation multimodal AI models and a proprietary, high-efficiency serving platform. Backed by multi-million-dollar funding and direct sponsorship from AMD with hands-on support from AMD engineers the team is scaling rapidly to build the full stack powering frontier AI models and real-time applications. About the role This is a rare chance to help architect and lead the development of Sciforium’s next-generation model serving platform, the high-performance engine that will bring a multimodal, highly efficient foundation model to market. As a senior technical leader, you’ll not only build core components yourself but also guide and mentor other engineers, influencing engineering direction, standards, and execution quality. You will learn and shape the full AI stack: from GPU kernels and quantized execution paths to distributed serving, scheduling, and the APIs that power real-time AI applications. If you enjoy deep systems work, thrive on ownership, and want to lead engineers in building foundational AI infrastructure, this role puts you at the center of SciForium’s mission and growth. What you'll do Lead the technical direct

- **Id**: 750727
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sciforium-lead-software-engineer-model-serving-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-17T16:36:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:42:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 82
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3909
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Flexible time off, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 716759
- **Name**: Sciforium
- **Domain**: sciforium.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sciforium-2>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0.5
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 11
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 230000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: yes
- **ROCm** — Optional: yes
- **SGLang** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 81

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T15:41:32Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.247
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 81
- **Expected fill days**: 11
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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