Baseten

Baseten is seeking a Capacity Strategy & Operations professional to manage the end-to-end capacity planning process. This role involves translating customer commitments and growth forecasts into supply requirements, coordinating fulfillment across various teams and vendors, and building scalable systems. You will be responsible for modeling complex scenarios, making clear recommendations, and driving alignment in a fast-paced hardware market to ensure a predictable and reliable foundation for customers and internal engineering teams. The ideal candidate is comfortable with both analytical modeling and cross-functional execution, particularly in ambiguous and rapidly evolving environments.

Baseten is seeking an AI Engineer to join its hyper-growth Compute organization. This role is crucial for scaling the systems and workflows that balance supply and demand across Baseten's GPU fleet. You will design, build, and deploy AI-powered workflows to automate repetitive and error-prone tasks within capacity management, enabling the team to focus on critical judgment calls. The ideal candidate will audit existing systems, identify gaps, and rapidly ship solutions, understanding when to leverage existing tools versus building custom AI-powered applications. This position requires a systems-thinking approach to ensure new workflows integrate seamlessly with broader capacity systems architecture.

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for leading AI companies, enabling them to bring cutting-edge models into production. We are seeking a founding engineer for our identity and authorization team within enterprise engineering. This role will own the identity and access layer of the Baseten platform, including the authorization model, credential systems, and admin experiences for enterprise IT teams. You will design and build a fine-grained authorization system from the ground up, ensuring low-latency permission checks at high request volumes, consistent behavior across the product suite, and strong security guarantees for critical workloads.

Baseten is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join its Model Performance organization. This is a unique opportunity to build a program framework from scratch, establishing planning structures, execution processes, and cross-functional alignment for a fast-growing team. You will be instrumental in accelerating the productization of performance R&D, directly impacting how quickly cutting-edge AI models are brought to production. If you excel at transforming ambitious initiatives into predictable, well-governed programs, this role is for you.

Baseten is seeking an AI Engineer to join their Training Product team. This role involves building AI-driven product features for customers training frontier models and enhancing Baseten's internal AI capabilities by transforming manual workflows into agentic ones. You will collaborate directly with research engineers, taking concepts from internal research to customer-ready products. This is a hands-on position offering significant autonomy, where you will identify key problems, develop reliable AI systems with appropriate harnesses and guardrails, and take ownership of the outcomes. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of shipping agents and is eager to make that their primary focus.

Baseten is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (Training) to work directly with leading AI companies, taking ownership of their technical outcomes on the Baseten platform. This role involves tackling complex challenges in serving and improving AI models at scale, spanning the entire model lifecycle from inference to post-training and the systems that connect them. You will act as a technical advisor, guiding customers from initial problem framing through to production deployment, and ensuring the quality and performance of their AI workloads through rigorous evaluation and optimization.

Baseten is seeking a Procurement Lead to establish and build the company's procurement function from the ground up. This is a foundational role with high ownership, focused on defining and implementing scalable purchasing workflows, vendor relationships, and procurement policies. The goal is to make procurement a source of leverage for the business, freeing up business owners' time and capacity while building necessary guardrails for growth. This role requires close partnership with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners across the company, with success measured by team support and unblocked progress.

Baseten is seeking an AI Developer Productivity Engineer to build the internal platform that empowers engineers to work in an AI-first manner. This role involves creating the agent configurations, tooling, and evaluation frameworks that make AI agents competent and easy to use within our codebase. You will be responsible for making the "good path" for AI adoption the easiest path, focusing on shipping infrastructure and measuring its impact. The goal is to enable teams to adopt these AI tools because they are superior to self-assembled solutions, not due to mandates. You will write the playbook for an AI-first Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) at Baseten, driving adoption through excellent developer experience, clear documentation, and low friction.

Baseten is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Observability team within the Infrastructure organization. As an early member of this team, you will be pivotal in building and shaping the observability experience for our internal and external customers, directly impacting the reliability and operational excellence of Baseten's product systems. As Baseten scales its infrastructure across different cloud providers and diverse hardware, the volume and complexity of operational data is growing significantly. This team is responsible for building high-throughput ingest pipelines, cost-efficient storage, and agentic diagnostic tools to ensure that issues can be detected, diagnosed, and resolved rapidly, even as the systems become more complex.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Baseten, you will partner directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten’s platform. You’ll own the journey with customers from initial exploration to production deployment, translating ambiguous business goals into reliable, observable services with clear quality, latency, and cost outcomes. This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial engineers who want a front-row view into how modern companies adopt AI at scale and who enjoy working across product, software development, performance engineering, and customer-facing implementations. This is an engineering role with hands-on coding and software development that also includes aspects of product management, technical customer success, and pre-sales solution engineering mixed in.

Base Labs, a research initiative by Baseten, is seeking researchers for its Fellowship program. This program offers full-time, 3-month research opportunities in San Francisco, providing funding, mentorship, and support to produce rigorous, published research. The goal is to expose researchers to frontier AI research within an industry setting, contributing to both the open-source ecosystem and Baseten's technical roadmap. Fellows will work closely with senior researchers, with the potential for a full-time offer for exceptional performers.

Baseten is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Internal Tooling team. In this role, you will be responsible for the internal operating system that manages Baseten's capacity, balancing supply and demand to unlock revenue. You will own a product end-to-end, working directly with Capacity, Sales, and Engineering teams to define solutions and ship software that streamlines high-stakes workflows. This position is ideal for engineers who enjoy taking full ownership of a product, possess strong product intuition, and are driven to build tools that measurably improve team effectiveness.

Baseten is seeking a Product Manager to define and build the developer experience for their AI inference platform. This is a foundational role where you will work directly with founders and engineers to shape the product function from the ground up. You will own the entire developer journey, from initial sign-up to deploying and iterating on AI models, aiming to make Baseten synonymous with great developer experience. The ideal candidate is deeply technical, customer-obsessed, and driven to ship impactful product experiences, not just strategy or documentation.

Baseten is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Inference Stack team. This team builds the distributed runtime that powers large-scale LLM inference across Baseten's platform, operating at the intersection of distributed systems, model performance, infrastructure, and developer experience. The role involves working across the entire stack, from customer-facing deployment tools and feature libraries to the underlying systems for orchestrating Kubernetes deployments and routing traffic. This is an ideal opportunity for engineers who thrive on owning production systems, solving complex integration challenges, and simplifying intricate infrastructure for users.

Baseten is seeking an Engineering Manager (Player & Coach) to lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers focused on building, scaling, and optimizing LLM inference workloads for their customers. This role involves both hands-on technical ownership and managerial leadership, guiding the team in designing, deploying, and managing high-performance, low-latency AI applications on Baseten’s platform. The Forward Deployed Engineering team contributes to the core Baseten codebase, influences the feature roadmap, and executes complex customer engagements. You will also collaborate with product, infrastructure, and other customer engineering teams to ensure generative AI systems deliver best-in-class performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Baseten is seeking a highly impactful individual to lead the Voice AI product area, owning the end-to-end development and implementation of their in-house inference stack for Voice AI models. This role involves partnering closely with various engineering teams to push the boundaries of Voice AI, making a significant impact on industries like productivity, customer service, and education. You will be responsible for bringing state-of-the-art open-source models into production, focusing on optimizing model serving for latency, throughput, and GPU efficiency, and building large-scale, real-time infrastructure for multi-model voice agents.

Baseten is seeking a Product Manager to define and build the product function for its inference platform, which powers mission-critical AI inference for leading AI companies. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI infrastructure, working directly with founders and top engineers. You will own the product surface responsible for making AI model inference fast, reliable, and economical at scale, including autoscaling, traffic routing, failover, and workload scaling across clusters and regions. The ideal candidate is deeply technical, customer-obsessed, and enjoys tackling foundational infrastructure challenges to make AI systems scalable and reliable.

Baseten is seeking a Solutions Architect to partner with Sales and customers, translating business needs into technical solutions. This role involves running technical discovery, guiding deployments, and proving value for clients. It's ideal for entrepreneurial, customer-facing technical professionals who want to see how companies adopt AI at scale and enjoy working across discovery, solution design, demos, deployment scoping, and hands-on implementations. You will work closely with Sales and Engineering to help build the platform engineers use to ship AI products.

Baseten is building the global operating system for distributed, heterogeneous AI hardware, powering mission-critical inference for leading AI companies. As LLM and multi-modal workloads scale, the network becomes a critical component. This role focuses on leading GPU Networking efforts, making RDMA a first-class building block and optimizing distributed inference. You will architect the software fabric that unifies thousands of GPUs, co-optimizing communication and computation for advanced AI workloads.

Baseten is seeking a customer-obsessed software engineer to join their team and contribute to the development of mission-critical AI inference platforms. In this role, you will own features from conception to launch, working across the entire technology stack from API and UI down to the infrastructure layer. You will have the opportunity to fine-tune models, gain a deep understanding of user workflows, and collaborate closely with research engineers to build cutting-edge experiences that accelerate model development and address real-world pain points. If you are excited about diving deep into AI model training and building impactful products, this is the role for you.