Inference Engineering, Co-op

Overview

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build.

About the Role

We're looking for exceptional University of Waterloo co-op students who want to work on the systems that determine how fast, efficiently, and reliably frontier AI models run on frontier workloads at scale. This is not a sandboxed internship project. We will match your strengths and interests to a real engineering problem across the vLLM stack, from model execution and low-level accelerator code to distributed serving and the cloud platform that makes it all usable.

You'll work alongside the creators and core maintainers of vLLM on work intended to ship into open source, production systems, or the tooling that supports both. You will have a primary technical track, meaningful ownership, and mentorship from a small, senior team, with opportunities to collaborate across models, compilers, accelerators, networking, and distributed systems. The goal is to let exceptional students learn at the frontier while making contributions used by developers and AI teams around th