# ML Infrastructure and Performance Engineer, AI Expert (Remote)

This role is for one of our clients Compensation: $90 - $120 per hour Location: Remote Job Overview We are seeking an experienced ML Infrastructure and Performance Engineer to contribute to the development and advancement of next-generation Generative AI systems. This role is focused on building, optimizing, debugging, and evaluating the infrastructure that powers large language models and other frontier AI systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in ML systems engineering, accelerator performance optimization, distributed workloads, or large-scale model serving. Expertise in areas such as custom accelerator kernels, performance profiling, trace analysis, distributed systems debugging, and high-throughput inference is particularly valuable. Experience with JAX, XLA, and TPU-based infrastructure will be a strong advantage. In this role, you will apply your engineering expertise to create, evaluate, and improve technical tasks and solutions used to train and assess advanced AI models. Your work will help improve how frontier AI systems understand and solve complex ML infrastructure and performance engineering problems. This is a fully remote opportunity open to cand

- **Id**: 4186071
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/weekday-ml-infrastructure-and-performance-engineer-ai-expert-remote>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T18:17:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T18:17:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4927
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 7097
- **Name**: Weekday
- **Domain**: weekday.works
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/weekday>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 117
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.983
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 90
- **Max**: 120
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 240000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Trainium** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **CUTLASS** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **SGLang** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **TPU** — Optional: no
- **Triton** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **XLA** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: yes
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: yes
- **MLIR** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T18:17:58Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T20:38:49Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 240000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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