Two System Designs and an Unexpected Rejection

This is an inference startup. The basic business is to place different stages of inference on different hardware in a forward-deployed model. For example, a company might have many old accelerator cards that no longer have enough compute for other work and use them for decoding. The role was Member of Technical Staff in machine learning systems. A recruiter approached me. I was already changing j…

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