Member of Technical Staff - Partner Inference Engineer

Liquid AI is an efficiency-first foundation-model company building device-native Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) and tools to customize and deploy them.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
About Liquid AI

An MIT CSAIL spinout, Liquid AI develops general-purpose AI models focused on efficient deployment across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, edge devices, and cloud or on-premises environments.

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About the Role

You will build and run the partner silicon program, including the device lab, profiling process, and technical relationships with partner engineering teams. You will deploy Liquid Foundation Models on edge hardware, measure performance, diagnose hardware-level gaps, collaborate on demos and benchmarks, and present results to partners and buyers.

Requirements

  • Deploy and profile ML models on at least one edge SoC family
  • Use at least one vendor lowering and runtime toolchain
  • Measure on-device latency, throughput, power, and thermal performance
  • Present technical results to external engineers and commercial stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Manage the partner device lab and partner-provided edge SoCs
  • Lower Liquid Foundation Models onto partner silicon
  • Profile model speed, latency, power, and thermal performance
  • Co-create demos and benchmark narratives with partner customer engineers
  • Present technical results to partners and demand-side buyers
  • Diagnose model and runtime performance gaps for the Edge Inference team
  • Contribute to runtime and model-level optimization where possible

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for employees and dependents
  • 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Company-wide Refill Days