Baseten

Software Engineer — GPU Networking & Distributed Systems

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6 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$165k - $330k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Integrate RDMA, RoCE, and InfiniBand capabilities directly into the inference stack.
  • Implement and tune networking layers for Disaggregated KV Cache Offload and Wide Expert Parallelism across NVLink and InfiniBand.
  • Develop checkpointing and storage mechanisms to enable sub-10-second startup for trillion-parameter models.
  • Characterize and validate networking performance on H100, H200, B200, B300, and GB200/300 NVL72 clusters.
  • Write acceptance tests that validate hardware throughput and latency.
  • Build observability tools for visualizing packet flow, congestion, and effective bandwidth across GPU interconnects.
  • Optimize NCCL and NVSHMEM communication and potentially develop custom communication kernels to overlap computation and data transfer.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with high-performance networking protocols, including InfiniBand and RoCE v2.
  • Fluency in C++ or Python and the ability to bridge high-level software logic with hardware.
  • Deep understanding of memory hierarchies in modern NVIDIA architectures, including H100 and Blackwell.
  • Ability to work with TensorRT-LLM source code, write custom C++ or Python bindings, and debug NVLink topology issues.
  • Ability to evaluate when to use off-the-shelf solutions and when to build custom networking infrastructure.
  • Highly preferred: deep knowledge of NCCL, NVSHMEM, and UCX.
  • Highly preferred: experience with GPUDirect Storage or high-performance filesystems such as Weka or 3FS.
  • Highly preferred: familiarity with TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, or Sglang.
  • Highly preferred: experience running low-level benchmarks to qualify new hardware clusters.

Benefits

  • 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible PTO and a company-wide Winter Break, with offices closed from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
  • Company-facilitated 401(k).
  • Exposure to a variety of machine learning startups and networking opportunities.
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About Baseten

201-500 employees

Inference is everything. Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring great AI products to market - fast. Our proprietary Inference Stack utilizes the cutting-edge of performance research combined with highly performant and reliable infrastructure to give you out-of-the-box global availability with 99.99% of uptime.