Baseten

Forward Deployed Engineer

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over 2 years ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$165k - $330k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain production software systems and product features using general-purpose programming languages, preferably Python.
  • Design, implement, deploy, and monitor Baseten solutions end to end in partnership with customer engineering teams.
  • Translate vague objectives into clear specifications and well-defined proofs of concept, then rapidly ship well-tested services.
  • Optimize AI/ML projects and contribute to improvements across the technical stack.
  • Develop features and product requirements documents with engineering and product teams.
  • Own customer projects and products from problem framing through production deployment, acting across engineering, project management, and product management.
  • Make effective tradeoffs under ambiguity and avoid unnecessary complexity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • At least 2 years of professional work experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages in a production-level environment, with a strong preference for Python.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and the lifecycle of ML model development and deployment.
  • Strong communication skills, particularly when discussing complex technical topics.
  • Experience building or optimizing AI/ML projects is highly valued.

Benefits

  • 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible PTO, including 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 ML startups and related learning 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.