Inference Optimization Architect, Speech AI

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NVIDIA is looking for an Inference Optimization architect to accelerate and scale our Speech AI models  & improve the experience of millions of customers. You will focus on reducing inference latency, improving throughput, and optimizing resource utilization across our AI infrastructure. If you're creative & passionate about solving real world conversational AI problems, come join our Speech AI Engineering team. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Optimize Inference Performance: Improve streaming latency and throughput through advanced batching strategies, encoder caching, and multi-threaded pipeline optimizations                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

• Model Compression: Implement techniques including quantization, pruning, and knowledge distillation.

• Benchmarking: Profile and benchmark models to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. GPU profiling and debugging using Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute

• Hardware Acceleration: Develop custom kernels and leverage hardware acceleration (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.).

• Infrastructure Design: Design and implement efficient serving infrastructure for Speech models at scale.

• Collaboration: Work alongside Model researchers to transition models from research to production readiness.

• Cross-Platform Optimization: Optimize inference across diverse GPUs platforms (data centre, edge devices).

• Tooling: Build frameworks for automated model optimization pipelines.

• Resource Management: Monitor and improve inference costs and resource utilization in production.

What we need to see:

• Masters or BE/BTech in Computer Science, computer architecture, or related field

• 10+ years of total experience & 5+ years on performance optimizations of Deep learning model inference

• Experience with inference pipelines for LLM, Speech Recognition & Speech Synthesis

• CUDA kernel development: thread blocks, shared memory, synchronization

• Model inference optimization: batching, dynamic shapes, latency tuning

• Model serving and deployment: Triton, TorchServe, TensorRT, TRT-LLM, vLLM

• Model optimization techniques: quantization, pruning, distillation

• Computer architecture & Operating systems: processes, threads, scheduling, memory management

• Solid understanding of modern model architectures (Transformers, CNNs, RNNs)

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Publications or contributions to open-source projects like pytorch/jax/triton-lan

• Experience with embedded systems or edge deployment           

• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic matrix environment                                                                                                     

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