# Staff Software Engineer, LLM Inference Platform

About Zenlayer Zenlayer is the first massively distributed edge cloud provider, operating 290+ Points of Presence across 70+ countries. With accolades including PTC “Best Networking Innovation”, “Outstanding Cloud, Data Center, or Interconnection Company”, and Inc. 5000, we enable businesses to deploy and run applications at the edge, thus reducing network latency to the end user. Zenlayer focuses on improving connections worldwide, all while nurturing a unique company culture that values service, growth, and trust. As a “Zenplayer”, you’ll be joining a community of success-driven team players that share the dream of powering a better-connected world. About the Role: As the technical lead for inference performance, you will own end-to-end responsibility for the platform's Token Performance. For models ranging from hundreds of billions to trillions of parameters (including MoE), you will continuously reduce cost per million tokensand increase per-GPU Goodputwhile meeting TTFT/TPOT SLOs, andprove the gain from every optimization with reproducible data. What You Will Work On 1. End-to-End Performance Attribution and Benchmarking Establish a unified Token Performance metrics framework

- **Id**: 3431565
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zenlayer-staff-software-engineer-llm-inference-platform>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T00:46:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-29T22:32:51Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-10-29T22:32:51Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3950
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Centers & Colocation, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), CDN & Edge Delivery

## Company

- **Id**: 180737
- **Name**: Zenlayer
- **Domain**: zenlayer.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zenlayer>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 75
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 177000
- **Max usd**: 352000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 890

## Technologies

- **AWQ** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **DeepSeek** — Optional: no
- **GPTQ** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Mixture of Experts** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Qwen** — Optional: no
- **ROCm** — Optional: no
- **SGLang** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **TPOT** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T00:46:44Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-29T22:32:51Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 0

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