Data & AI Jobs at Inference
Inference has 2 open data and AI roles, alongside 3 other open roles.
About Inference
Inference.net provides AI infrastructure for AI-native teams to run, monitor, and optimize production AI workloads. The company also trains and hosts specialized language models for companies, offering an end-to-end platform that covers distillation, training, evaluation, and hosting. Its models are smaller and faster than GPT-5, with up to 90% lower cost.
The open roles
- Machine Learning Researcher: San Francisco, USD 250k to 350k, posted 5 January 2026.
- Applied Machine Learning Engineer: San Francisco, USD 220k to 320k, posted 5 January 2026.
Also hiring at Inference
Inference is also hiring in engineering (2) and sales and business development (1).
Its roles are in San Francisco, CA, US (5).
What data and AI work involves at an early-stage startup
The data is messy and there is not much of it yet. You build the pipeline, train the model, then explain the result to a founder in plain words. Large employers give you a clean warehouse and one narrow question, while here you pick the question too.
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What else is Inference hiring for?
Engineering and sales and business development: 3 more roles.