Lead ML Engineer - LLM Inference & NLP

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a group of social discovery companies. SDG solves the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection - transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. SDG’s products redefine the way people interact and connect with one another.

Our portfolio includes social entertainment platforms designed to connect people online across different cultures and regions of the world. We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals who specialize in creating and developing globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of digital nomads works remotely from all over the world.

We’re proud to be a two-time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan, 2024–2025) and a Top-5 Company for Work-From-Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025). We are looking for Lead ML Engineer -LLM Inference & NLP . Your main tasks will be: Speed up and scale LLM inference in production: SG

Lang, KV and prefix caching, batching, quantization, speculative decoding Run distributed inference for very large models (up to 1T+ parameters) across multi-GPU and multi-node setups Benchmark new GPU servers and hardware, bring them into production and adapt our serving code to them Lead the NLP and CV teams technically: review experiments, set direction, and step in early when something is heading the wrong way Train and fine-tune the language models, and improve the agent harnesses and chat algorithm that run on them Track cutting-edge research and open-source