Manager - Systems Software AI

Company Overview

Position Overview

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team building the on-device AI inference platform with accountability for execution, technical direction, delivery quality, and roadmap alignment.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with software, research, architecture, and product teams, along with industry partners and open-source communities, to build strategy and strengthen the AI ecosystem.
• Provide technical leadership for the architecture and evolution of modern inference runtimes and execution stacks across frameworks such as Llama.cpp, vLLM, PyTorch, WinML, DXCGC, and TensorRT-RTX, spanning workloads including LLMs, vision-language models, TTS, ASR, and diffusion models.
• Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and foster a high-performance team culture centred on innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.
• Coordinate end-to-end optimization of AI models, data pipelines, and inference runtimes to improve performance across current and next-generation GPU architectures.

Skills & Experience

• 12+ overall years of industry experience and 2+ years of engineering leadership experience, combined with a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams in systems software, AI infrastructure, inference runtimes, or related domains.
• Strong technical foundation in C++ software development, debugging, data structures, algorithms, and machine learning systems.
• Extensive background in AI inference pipelines and Deep Learning frameworks like Llama.cpp, vLLM, PyTorch, WinML, DXCGC, and TensorRT.