About the role
We’re hiring a Founding ML Infrastructure Engineer in Bengaluru to own the systems that train and serve our Speech models: the distributed training stack, Realtime inference engine, and the cloud services. You’ll work in a small team with tons of compute and see your ideas making it to production in days.
What you’ll do
- Own the training stack: FSDP/HSDP and Megatron-style tensor parallelism in our PyTorch framework
- Make realtime inference fast: time-to-first-audio and throughput on our vLLM-based engine, Quantization, model compilation and load testing under high concurrency.
- Build data pipelines at scale: Work on creating in-house data pipelines that process Millions of hours of audio and feed training at high throughput.
- Run the production path: API gateway and streaming WebSocket APIs, deploy tooling, logging, monitoring.
What we’re looking for
- 3+ years building ML systems or high-performance backend infrastructure.
- Hands-on depth in at least one of: distributed training (FSDP/TP/PP), LLM serving (vLLM/SGLang/TensorRT-LLM), High volume data processing, or low-latency streaming systems.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: you can spec, build, debug, and ship.
- Speech/audio experience is a plus, not required.
About Kalpa Labs
Scaling Generalist Speech models
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$90,000 - $110,000
Equity
0.5% - 1%
Location
Bengaluru, KA
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
