Founding ML Infrastructure Engineer

Bengaluru, KA
Full-time
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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

Python
Distributed Systems
Machine Learning
CUDA

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Job details

Salary

$90,000 - $110,000

Equity

0.5% - 1%

Location

Bengaluru, KA

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameKalpa Labs
IndustryB2B
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Gautam Jha

Gautam Jha

Co-Founder & CTO

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Prashant Shishodia

Prashant Shishodia

Co-Founder & CEO

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.