AI Inference Engineer
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The Opportunity
Fuse is seeing significant demand for data centre capacity across the markets we operate in, primarily for inference. Few companies in the world can pair real power delivery with real compute the way Fuse can, which puts inference serving at the heart of how we turn that advantage into the best offering in the market. That's this role.
Responsibilities
Define Fuse's inference serving strategy and architecture from first principles.
Design and build the serving stack: request routing, batching, scheduling, and autoscaling for high-throughput, latency-sensitive inference workloads.
Own model-level optimisation strategy for serving - deciding where and how to apply quantisation, distillation, speculative decoding, and similar techniques to improve throughput and cost per token, partnering with the CUDA/GPU engineers.
Make the core software architecture calls on serving frameworks and orchestration (e.g. vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, Triton Inference Server, or equivalents).
Translate throughput, latency, and uptime commitments into concrete technical specifications and serving capacity plans.
Act as a direct technical owner of inference performance and reliability.
Work closely with the CUDA and GPU engineering teams to ensure custom kernels and hardware performance work are integrated cleanly into the serving layer.
Set the standards, tooling, and benchmarks this function will run on as it grows.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building or operating large-scale inference serving systems, or equivalent strong project/industry experience.
- Deep, hands-on experience with inference serving frameworks and the techniques used to optimise them (batching, KV-cache management, quantisation, speculative decoding).
- Strong systems thinking - able to reason about the full path from incoming request to served response across a large cluster.
- Comfortable working directly with GPU/CUDA engineers to integrate low-level performance work into a serving system.
- A track record of making high-stakes architecture calls and owning the outcome.
- Comfort operating without a playbook - this is a founding role shaping a new function around architecture that's still early-stage, not joining an established one.
Nice to Have
Experience with Triton or custom ML inference/training frameworks.
Experience with autoscaling or capacity planning for large-scale inference workloads.
Exposure to multi-tenant serving or SLA-driven infrastructure.
Background at a hyperscaler, frontier AI lab, or large-scale distributed inference system.
Familiarity with Kubernetes/Slurm for cluster orchestration.
Interest or experience in energy markets, grid systems, or sustainability-focused compute.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and an equity sign-on bonus.
- Biannual bonus scheme.
- Fully expensed tech to match your needs.
- Breakfast and dinner allowance for office based employees.
About Fuse Energy
Building a full stack energy company to lower the cost of energy and accelerate energy abundance.
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