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# AI Inference Platform Engineer at DRW

Department: IO - Enterprise Systems

Compensation · Listed in posting

$200,000 – $250,000/yr

**Location**
: Chicago, Illinois

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 29, 2026

## Description

DRW is hiring an AI Inference Platform Engineer to build, operate, and optimize production systems serving large language, vision, multimodal, and embedding models. The role owns end-to-end inference platform engineering, including NVIDIA GPU serving, model onboarding, performance profiling, distributed and multi-tenant scheduling, reliability, observability, and cost optimization. Candidates need hands-on LLM serving experience, expertise in modern inference runtimes, knowledge of GPU architectures and optimization techniques, and strong Linux and systems performance skills. The annual base salary is $200,000 to $250,000, with a discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits.

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