Software Engineer, ML infrastructure, Core Inference, Level 4
Snap Inc.· Engineering
Hybrid (Bellevue, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Palo Alto, CA)$133k - $235kFull timePosted 5d ago
About the role
Software Engineer role on the Core Inference team within the ML Platform at Snap, building and owning the machine learning infrastructure for end-to-end inference across personalization, recommendations, embeddings, and self-hosted large language models; enables teams to deploy, optimize, and serve ML models at scale.
Responsibilities
- Support the models powering personalized experiences across Discover, Stories, Spotlight, and other Snap products with ranking needs.
- Optimize, export, and prepare models for efficient production use while working across training and inference.
- Own the infrastructure used to host and serve recommendation models, embedding-generation models, and self-hosted LLMs.
- Work on LLM fine-tuning, reinforcement learning infrastructure, serving, and inference optimization.
- Provide model-hosting and serving capabilities to teams across Ads, Content, Growth, Lenses, Security, My AI, and other product areas.
- Own the inference components that power advertising models, while Ads teams generally own the ad products, formats, modeling objectives, and ranking strategies.
- Provide ranking and ML infrastructure for products such as Camera, Creative Tools, Maps, Chat, Memories, Games, and Minis when those products require model hosting or serving.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field + 1+ year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field
- Experience building large scale production machine learning systems, distributed systems or big data processing
Skills
Required:PythonJavaDistributed systemsBig data frameworksCollaborative skills
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Comprehensive medical coverage
- Emotional and mental health support programs
- compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Snap Inc.
We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.
cameramessagingsocial mediaARAI
More open roles at Snap Inc.
- Senior Manager, Global Strategic Accounts5d agoNew York · Sales
- Senior Account Manager5d agoHybrid (Tel Aviv) · Sales
- Associate Client Partner5d agoHybrid (Los Angeles), Hybrid (New York) · Sales
- Senior Client Partner5d agoHybrid (Toronto) · Sales
- Client Partner, SMC5d agoHybrid (Austin; Los Angeles; New York; Palo Alto; San Francisco) · Sales