Supercharge Generative AI Inference Efficient, fast, and reliable generative AI inference solution for production
Supercharge Generative AI Inference Efficient, fast, and reliable generative AI inference solution for production
What they do: High-performance generative AI inference tooling and managed platforms for deploying, scaling, and monitoring large language and multimodal models
Founded: 2021
HQ / hubs: Redwood City, California; hub in Seoul, Korea
Recent financing: $20M seed extension led by Capstone Partners (announced Aug 28, 2025)
Founder / CEO: Byung-Gon Chun
Generative AI inference infrastructure for production deployments of LLMs and multimodal models
2021
Software Development
$20M
Participation from Sierra Ventures, Alumni Ventures, KDB Investment, and KB Securities (announced by company)
$6M
Prior seed round reported in late 2021
“Led by Capstone Partners with participation from Sierra Ventures, Alumni Ventures, KDB Investment, and KB Securities”
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About the job
FriendliAI is hiring a Python Engineer to build developer tools for our users and internal engineers. The software developed by the engineer will be the primary way developers integrate with our inference and agent platform. Your work will remove friction for internal teams and external users. You’ll design ergonomic & stable APIs, reliable releases to PyPI, and drive top-tier developer experience across documentation, examples, and tooling. You’ll collaborate with frontend engineers on end-to-end workflows and partner with product & engineering teams.
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About us
FriendliAI, a San Mateo, CA-based startup, is building the next-generation AI inference platform that accelerates the deployment of large language and multimodal models with unmatched performance and efficiency. Our infrastructure supports high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads for organizations worldwide. We are also integrated with the Hugging Face platform, allowing instant access to over 430,000 open-source models. We are on a mission to deliver the world’s best platform for generative and agentic AI.