ML Inference Engineer â Terminal-Bench Task Designer (vLLM / SGLang / TensorRT-LLM)
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- Target Role:ML Inference Engineer â Terminal-Bench Task Designer (vLLM / SGLang / TensorRT-LLM)
- Employer:Toptal
- Work Mode:REMOTE
- Location:Remote (Worldwide)
- Compensation:Competitive Global Remote Compensation (Official)
- Experience:2+ Years
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- Candidate Fee:₹0 (Zero Placement Fee Guarantee)
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About the Role
Overview We are building a benchmark that tests how well AI agents handle real expert work in a terminal. We are hiring ML inference and serving experts to turn real, paid tasks from their jobs into expert-level Terminal-Bench challenges. Each task includes the environment, a working solution, and an automated check that proves the result is correct. ***THIS IS A TASK BASED COMPENSATION MODEL. PLEASE CHECK THE APPLICATION QUESTIONS FOR MORE DETAILS.*** Responsibilities ⢠Design expert-level Terminal-Bench tasks that turn real, paid ML inference work from your own experience into challenges an AI agent must solve end to end. ⢠Define the files, systems and environments each task runs on, such as model serving with streaming, so the challenge is realistic, reproducible and command-line solvable. ⢠Write a working reference solution for every task and verify it runs end to end, sized for about 60 to 75 minutes of expert effort. ⢠Build automated checks that objectively prove a result is correct, including cases where ML outputs go wrong silently, such as numerical drift or metric bugs. ⢠Package tasks with Docker and Git so they are reproducible, and document the systems, tools, data and rules involved so reviewers can validate difficulty. ⢠Iterate on tasks based on reviewer feedback and agent test runs, adjusting difficulty and fixing ambiguities so each task stays expert-level, fair and objectively gradable. Skills/Experience ⢠3+ years doing ML inference or serving work hands-on (not only studying, selling or managing it), or a PhD plus active research in the subfield ⢠Did this work in the last 3 years and can name the systems, tools, data and rules used ⢠Trained, served or evaluated models at real scale (multi-GPU or production serving), not only notebooks or API calls ⢠Hands-on with PyTorch or JAX internals and serving stacks such as vLLM, SGLang or TensorRT-LLM ⢠Can explain how ML results go wrong without errors (numerica
Requirements & Qualifications
- Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.
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- and career progression.
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