Member of Technical Staff - ML Systems & Inference
Company websitegimletlabs.ai (Gimlet Labs, opens in new tab)
Base salary $150K to $390K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
How this pay compares
Base floor $150,000, above 18% of the 1,731 Data & ML roles in California on this site; the other 82% list the same floor or a higher one. The employer's range is $240,000 wide, 160% of the floor. Observed open for 24 days so far (since Oct 14, 2026).
Pay in context
Among 1,731 Data & ML roles in California listed on this site, the median base floor is $184,000 and the middle half runs from $154,300 to $224,000. This role's floor ($150,000) is above 18% of them; 63 others list the same floor.
Base floors of 1,731 Data & ML roles in California
Table
| Floor band | Share | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 7.2% | 125 |
| $125K to $150K | 11.7% | 202 |
| $150K to $175K | 20.0% | 347 |
| $175K to $200K | 20.8% | 360 |
| $200K to $225K | 15.6% | 270 |
| $225K to $250K | 7.2% | 124 |
| $250K to $275K | 6.8% | 118 |
| $275K and up | 10.7% | 185 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Base floor distribution of the cohort
- Formula
- count of cohort postings in each $25K band of published base floor / postings in the cohort
- Denominator
- 1,731 open postings with this job family in California
- Sample size
- 1731
- Hidden when
- needs at least 30 postings in the cohort
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
State against nationwide
Median base floor in California vs nationwide
Table
| Value | postings | |
|---|---|---|
| Data & ML, California | $184K | 1,731 |
| Data & ML, all states | $165K | 4,587 |
| This job's base floor (marked) | $150K |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Median floor, state vs nationwide
- Formula
- median published base floor of each cohort
- Denominator
- open postings of this job family
- Sample size
- 1731 in California; 4587 nationwide
- Hidden when
- needs at least 30 postings in both cohorts
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
How Gimlet Labs pays
7 of Gimlet Labs's 15 live roles on this site list a higher base floor and 1 list a lower one. Across them the median floor is $150,000; the middle half runs from $150,000 to $237,500.
Base floors of Gimlet Labs's 15 live roles
Table
| Floor band | Share | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 0.0% | 0 |
| $125K to $150K | 6.7% | 1 |
| $150K to $175K | 46.7% | 7 |
| $175K to $200K | 6.7% | 1 |
| $200K to $225K | 0.0% | 0 |
| $225K to $250K | 13.3% | 2 |
| $250K to $275K | 6.7% | 1 |
| $275K and up | 20.0% | 3 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Employer base floor distribution
- Formula
- count of the employer's open roles in each $25K band of published base floor / its open roles
- Denominator
- 15 open public roles at this employer
- Sample size
- 15
- Hidden when
- needs at least 5 roles
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- current
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
Similar pay elsewhere
Other employers' Data & ML roles in California with the nearest published base floor to $150,000, one per employer.
- Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Post-Training NewsBreak · base floor $150,000
- Member of Technical Staff Nimble Robotics · base floor $150,000
- Senior Staff ML Engineer GEICO · base floor $150,000
- Data Engineer Stuut AI · base floor $150,000
- Data Engineer II Knit Health · base floor $150,000
About this job
About us
Gimlet is building the first multi-silicon neocloud designed for fast, efficient AI inference.
We combine large-scale compute infrastructure with an execution platform that partitions AI workloads and maps each stage to the hardware best suited to run it.
We work with foundation labs, hyperscalers, and AI-native companies, giving our team access to technical problems spanning frontier models, production infrastructure, and emerging hardware.
About the role
As a Member of Technical Staff focused on ML Systems, you will build the inference systems that execute models end-to-end in production.
You will work on the systems that determine how inference executes across that pipeline: how requests are batched and scheduled, how stages are placed and scaled, how KV cache and intermediate state move between accelerators, and how the system balances latency, throughput, and utilization across different hardware characteristics.
You will work across model serving, batching, scheduling, concurrency, KV cache management, and memory placement. You will help bring up models on novel hardware. You will support new model architectures and inference techniques, improve performance under real production workloads, and partner with compiler, kernel, networking, and distributed systems engineers to optimize the full execution path.
What success looks like
In the first 12-18 months, you will:
Improve the latency, throughput, and efficiency of production inference workloads
Design execution strategies across batching, scheduling, concurrency, and resource utilization
Improve KV cache management, memory efficiency, and execution under load
Enable new models, accelerator architectures, and inference techniques to run efficiently in production
You may be a good fit if you have
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Experience building or operating ML inference or model serving systems
Comfort reasoning about performance, memory usage, and system behavior under load
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.
Strong candidates may also have
Experience with inference runtimes such as TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, or custom serving systems
Deep understanding of modern model architectures and attention mechanisms
Experience with batching, scheduling, and concurrency control in inference systems
Familiarity with KV cache management and memory placement strategies
Experience profiling and tuning latency- and throughput-critical systems
Software development experience in Python and C++
Why join now?
Gimlet is expanding from its core technology into a production neocloud spanning new hardware, customers, and data centers.
Solve hard problems.
Own meaningful work.
Build for production.
Help define what’s next.
Agency Policy: Gimlet Labs does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited resumes submitted without a signed agreement will be considered the property of Gimlet Labs, and no fees will be paid.
Source: Gimlet Labs on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
This listingMember of Technical Staff - ML Systems & Inference$150K to $390K
Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure$150K to $390K
Member of Technical Staff - Kernels$150K to $390K
Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems$150K to $390K
Data Center Operations, Site Lead$150K to $200K
Member of Technical Staff - GPU Performance$150K to $390K
Project Coordinator, Hardware Partnerships$150K to $195K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff - ML Systems & Inference (this listing) | $150K - $390K |
| Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure | $150K - $390K |
| Member of Technical Staff - Kernels | $150K - $390K |
| Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems | $150K - $390K |
| Data Center Operations, Site Lead | $150K - $200K |
| Member of Technical Staff - GPU Performance | $150K - $390K |
| Project Coordinator, Hardware Partnerships | $150K - $195K |
Observed changes
No changes to the pay or listing since we first observed this role on Oct 14, 2026 (24 days ago).
- First observed on the employer's board, already publishing a qualifying base salary
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-03-10
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco, CA
USD 150,000 – 390,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
- Method
- Structured pay field published by the employer
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The employer's job board publishes this pay as a dedicated data field. We read the field directly; no interpretation was needed.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.
