Engineering Manager
San Francisco$200k - $400kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Inferact aims to grow vLLM as the world’s AI inference engine, accelerating AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. This role leads a senior-heavy engineering organization at the frontier of AI inference, covering inference systems, performance, kernels, accelerators, and cloud infrastructure, while maintaining technical quality and execution speed.
Responsibilities
- Own team execution, hiring, coaching, prioritization, and operating rhythm.
- Manage a team of engineers across inference systems, performance, kernels, accelerators, and cloud infrastructure.
- Turn company priorities into clear technical direction and remove blockers.
- Partner with engineering and company leadership to optimize prioritization and execution.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
- Experience managing strong software engineers in technically demanding systems, infrastructure, ML systems, distributed systems, or performance-oriented environments.
- Strong technical credibility to understand architecture and unblock senior engineers.
- Experience owning the full people-management lifecycle (hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, feedback, performance management, career development, team health, retention).
- Ability to translate ambiguous company priorities into clear team goals and execution plans.
- Experience building engineering operating rhythms around planning, decision-making, technical reviews, cross-team coordination, and accountability.
- Strong judgment on when to dive in vs delegate.
- 2+ years of management experience with 10+ reports.
Skills
Required:Team leadership and people managementSystems design and architecture
Nice to have:Inference systems / ML infrastructureHiring and talent development
Benefits
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) company match
Last updated Oct 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Inferact
Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine.
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