Whatnot
Commerce
MachineLearningInfrastructureEngineer
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“Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Whatnot. Skills: Machine Learning Infrastructure, AI Infrastructure, Large Language Model Infrastructure, MLOps, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Low-latency serving, High-throughput inference, Distributed training. Design and scale the core infrastructure that powers machine learning and self-hosted large language model applications. Bring cutting-edge models into production”
What You'll Achieve.
Enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce; Scale the core infrastructure that powers machine learning and self-hosted large language model applications; Make advanced ML dependable and fast at scale; Support growth, recommendations, trust and safety, fraud, seller tooling; Directly shape user experience and marketplace dynamics; Serve large models with low latency and high throughput; Scale AI across Whatnot’s ecosystem
Industry & Context.
Intellectually curious; Comfortable figuring things out as they go; Problem-solving
Must live within commuting distance of our New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco hubs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years of professional experience developing machine learning systems and algorithms, 3+ years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems for consumer-scale loads, 1+ years of professional experience developing software in Python, Ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams, Experience with operational, search, and key-value databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e. g. DataDog, Grafana, Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Apache Kafka, Flink, Professionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested, reproducible work, Exceptional documentation and communication skills, Must live within commuting distance of our New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco hubs
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
Design and scale the core infrastructure that powers machine learning and self-hosted large language model applications
Bring cutting-edge models into production
Build systems that make advanced ML dependable and fast at scale
Own the infrastructure powering AI and ML models across critical business surfaces
and productionalize novel ML architectures
Design and scale inference infrastructure capable of serving large models with low latency and high throughput
Build distributed training and inference pipelines leveraging GPUs and both model and data parallelism
Stretch beyond your comfort zone to take on new technical challenges as we scale AI across Whatnot’s ecosystem
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working side by side with machine learning scientists; Collaborating in a remote working environment; Drive initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
Communication Scope
Communicate findings with leadership and product teams; Exceptional communication skills
Process & Methodology
Drive initiatives across multiple product areas
Full Job Description
🚀 JOIN THE FUTURE OF COMMERCE WITH WHATNOT! Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops. As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values https://www.whatnot.com/careers and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact. We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/business/dealbook/whatnot-livestream-shopping-fundraise.html and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/ by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/ and engineering blogs https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. 💻 ROLE We’re looking for builders–intellectually curious, highly entrepreneurial engineers eager to shape the future of AI and ML at Whatnot. You’ll design and scale the core infrastructure that powers machine learning and self-hosted large language model applications across the company, working side by side with machine learning scientists to bring cutting-edge models into production and unlock entirely new product experiences. This means building systems that make advanced ML dependable and fast at scale–from low-latency, large model serving to distributed training & high-throughput GPU inference. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Own the infrastructure powering AI and ML models across critical business surfaces–supporting
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