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Infrastructure Research Engineer - Research

Infrastructure Research Engineer - Research

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Edinburgh, United kingdom

£ 60,000 /year

Freelance

24-04-2025

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Job Specifications

Key Responsibilities:
Collaborative engineering: Work within a larger team to rapidly develop proof-of-concept prototypes to validate research ideas and integrate them into production systems and infrastructure
Performance Analysis: Conduct in-depth profiling and tuning of operating systems and large-scale distributed systems, leveraging heterogeneous hardware (CPU, NPU).
Documentation and Reporting: Maintain clear technical documentation of research findings, design decisions, and implementation details to ensure reproducibility and facilitate knowledge transfer within the team.
Research & Technology Exploration: Stay current with the latest advancements in AI infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, and operating systems. E.g. techniques to efficiently execute inference workload based on SW/HW co-design; exploit workload characteristics to prefetch memory/minimize communication.
Stakeholder Communication: Present project milestones, performance metrics, and key findings to internal stakeholders.
Requirements:
Master’s/PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
Familiarity with current LLM architectures (e.g. Llama3, DeepSeek V3)
Familiarity with production LLM serving systems and inference optimizations (e.g. VLLM, Prefill-Decode Disaggregation)
Experience with accelerator programming (e.g. CUDA, Triton) and communication libraries (e.g. NCCL)
Specialized experience in one or more of the following domains: Hardware accelerators architecture, ML Systems, ML Compilers, AI infrastructure, HPC.
Experience developing AI-System software in C/C++
Fluent English speaking

About the Company

Project People provides complete talent acquisition and management solutions at a global level whilst maintaining a flexible and localised approach. Founded in 1995 as a specialist information technology and telecommunications recruitment company, we have evolved into a leading provider of global recruitment service programmes. We work in partnership with 200 of the world's most respected organisations including Fujitsu, Ericsson, Huawei, Three, GSMA, Nokia and many others. Our key aim is to help businesses meet growth tar... Know more