AI Engineering Advanced
AI Inference Optimization Engineer
An AI Inference Optimization Engineer specializes in making trained AI models faster, cheaper, and more efficient when serving pre…
Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $145,000-$280,000/yr
Model quantization (GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF, INT8/INT4 techniques)GPU architecture understanding and CUDA kernel optimizationInference serving frameworks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, SGLang)Model profiling and bottleneck identification (Nsight, PyTorch Profiler) +8