Apertus Engineer: Deployment — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- fixed-term
- Posted
- 7 days ago
Role overview
Apertus Engineer: Deployment
100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
We are seeking a skilled engineer to own the technical release path of Apertus models.
- Apertus Engineer: Deployment
- 100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
Additional details
- 100%, Zurich, fixed-term
- This role requires strong Python and software engineering skills, experience with LLM inference stacks, and a track record of open-source contributions. Project background
- This role sits at the interface between the training team and the open-source community: the social side of community engagement is owned by our community manager, while this role owns the technical release path.
- Coordinate release timing and technical materials with the community manager
- Validate quantised variants against evaluation benchmarks to ensure quality is preserved Documentation and examples
- Maintain deployment documentation and troubleshooting guides for the community
- Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp) Strongly preferred
- Familiarity with personal and local deployment tools such as LM Studio, Ollama, or llama.cpp Experience writing developer-f
Notes and original content
- This role requires strong Python and software engineering skills, experience with LLM inference stacks, and a track record of open-source contributions.
- Project background
- Job description
- Quantisation
- Validate quantised variants against evaluation benchmarks to ensure quality is preserved
- Documentation and examples
- Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp)
- Strongly preferred
- Familiarity with personal and local deployment tools such as LM Studio, Ollama, or llama.cpp
- Experience writing developer-f
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