Ask HN: What things might help me to become inference engineer?

3 points by chalshik 6 hours ago | 3 comments

I used to work as a full-stack engineer, but it started to burn me out, and I lost interest in building SaaS products. Instead, I began looking for areas that would challenge me, which led me to Infrastructure Engineering. Specifically, I chose the Inference field because I want to remain relevant in the age of AI. I would appreciate advice from AI Infra engineers or anyone with relevant experience on how I can become a strong Inference engineer

StreamCtx 6 hours ago |

Beyond learning inference optimization, I’d also spend time understanding context management, memory systems, caching, and agent orchestration. Those seem to be becoming important building blocks for production AI systems.

chalshik 5 hours ago | |

noted

lemonademan 6 hours ago |

AI inference infrastructure is a solid direction. I don't know much about this field, but I believe building strong systems, distributed computing, and GPU optimization skills will put you in a great position. I hope this could be of help.