LLM Infra Engineer - Palo Alto, United States
Originally posted 19 January 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Ricursive Intelligence is hiring an LLM Infra Engineer in Palo Alto to build core infrastructure for LLM training and inference.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain core infrastructure supporting LLM training and inference workflows. - Implement low-level optimization strategies across training and inference stacks. - Address system-level engineering challenges related to scaling large language model workloads.
What you'll need
- Experience building core infrastructure for LLM training and inference. - Background in low-level optimization for machine learning workloads. - Experience addressing technical challenges in system scaling.
Skills: LLM infrastructure, distributed training, inference, low-level optimization, scaling
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 54-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1009
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$223k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Ricursive Intelligence | All employers we track in this specialty (1009 roles · 91 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 1009 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 3 | 6292 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 1 d | 54 d (−53 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $223k |
Skills observed across this category: LLM infrastructure, distributed training, inference, low-level optimization, scaling
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 282 open roles · median 53 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 28 d
- Intel Corporation · 49 open roles · median 13 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 102 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 92 d
How we counted: 1009 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 91 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.