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Beam

Beam

Software Engineering, Data Science
United States · New York, NY, USA · Remote
Posted on Jun 20, 2025

Beam is an ultrafast AI inference platform. We built a serverless runtime that launches GPU-backed containers in less than 1 second and quickly scales out to thousands of GPUs. Developers use our platform to serve apps to millions of users around the globe. We're backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, and prominent developer-tool founders, including the founder of Snyk and former CTO of GitHub.

About the Role

In this role, you'll build full-stack AI apps with our platform. You’ll build examples, demos, and sharable mini-apps that showcase the most interesting capabilities of AI — and you’ll use our infrastructure to do it. You’ll also optimize inference performance for a wide range of models running on our platform. You will minimize latency, maximize throughput, and experiment to make sure the apps running on our platform have industry-leading performance.

Your work will directly impact millions of users worldwide.

Skills & Experience

  • Familiar with modern AI workflows, like ComfyUI and LoRA adaptors for fine-tuning
  • Able to ship full-stack web apps, ideally using a modern stack like Python/Django and React/Next.js
  • You’ve built something from scratch in the past, from wireframes to launching it publicly
  • Interest in the modern AI/ML landscape: you’re experimenting with the newest models as soon as they’re released
  • Experience with the modern inference stack (e.g., PyTorch, TensorRT, vLLM)

Benefits

  • Work on challenging and impactful engineering problems
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity
  • Join a fast-growing pre-Series A company at the ground floor
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits with 100% coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
  • Opportunities to participate in events across the cloud-native and AI communities
  • Fitness stipend, learning budget, and much more