IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer

Intellectual Capital Resources

Cambridge · Cambridgeshire · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you deploy, extend, and optimize a leading open-source LLM inference engine across scaling and regulated-environment initiatives. You will work with cross-functional teams to improve performance, accuracy, and explainability, while contributing upstream to OSS communities. You help shape how advanced models are served and monitored in production, with a focus on scalable, safe AI infrastructure. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position with a clear emphasis on OSS collaboration and hardware-aware optimization.

Responsibilities
  • Deploy, instrument, and monitor open-weight models served via the inference engine
  • Build new engine features to support novel hardware architectures
  • Extend the engine for accuracy, explainability, and accountability in regulated settings
  • Contribute upstream to the relevant open-source community
  • Optimize inference performance (latency, throughput, hardware utilisation)
Key requirements
  • Senior-level Python + low-level programming (C/C++, Rust, CUDA)
  • Direct contributions to a major inference/serving engine or similar ML infra project (e.g. PyTorch, Ray)
  • Strong grasp of LLM inference internals (KV caching, batching, quantisation)
  • Experience upstreaming to active OSS communities
  • Hardware accelerator optimisation experience (GPU/TPU/etc.)
  • Genuine enthusiasm for AI-assisted development (LLMs/agents as core tools)
  • Python
  • C/C++
  • Rust
  • CUDA
  • LLM inference internals (KV caching, batching, quantisation)
  • Hardware accelerator optimisation (GPU/TPU)

Reference: WJ-747_31159840

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