Baseten

Software Engineer - Training Infrastructure

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12 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$165k - $330k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect scalable infrastructure systems for the ML training platform, including scheduling, storage, and networking.
  • Partner with developers and research engineers to translate complex training requirements into technical solutions.
  • Design and architect a global training scheduler.
  • Design and architect reinforcement learning systems and continuous learning pipelines.
  • Drive long-term improvements to system reliability and development velocity.
  • Partner with SRE and Capacity teams to advance training infrastructure.
  • Make critical architectural decisions that balance performance and reliability.
  • Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers on infrastructure best practices.
  • Contribute to long-term technical strategy and the infrastructure roadmap.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Proficiency in Go; Python experience is a plus.
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Extensive experience with major cloud providers such as AWS and GCP; experience with Crusoe, DigitalOcean, or Nebius is a plus.
  • Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and performance tuning.
  • Proven experience designing observability systems.
  • Experience with ML/AI workloads and MLOps platforms is highly valued.
  • Experience with distributed storage systems is a nice-to-have.
  • Experience with workload orchestration platforms such as Temporal or Airflow is a nice-to-have.
  • Familiarity or experience with NCCL, PyTorch, Megatron, NemoRL, VeRL, Axolotl, HF Trainier, FSDP, and DeepSpeed is a nice-to-have.
  • Experience developing AI products, tooling, or agents is a nice-to-have.

Benefits

  • 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
  • Flexible PTO and company-wide Winter Break 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 ML 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.