7 months ago
Base Salary
$165k - $330k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own features such as multi-node training and serverless reinforcement learning from conception through MVP and GA.
- Design ergonomic APIs and abstractions for complex resources and lifecycles.
- Implement features across the API, backend, database, infrastructure, and optionally frontend layers.
- Fine-tune and deploy models to understand training workflows.
- Partner with model developers and research engineers on post-training requirements and pain points.
- Drive improvements to system reliability and development velocity.
- Fix bugs and resolve customer issues urgently.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building software applications.
- Deep knowledge of the web stack, databases, and distributed systems.
- Experience developing developer tooling or infrastructure products for external or internal users.
- Strong product judgment, particularly for developer-oriented tools.
- Interest in ML/AI infrastructure and willingness to learn.
- High agency and ownership.
- Strong communication skills and ability to bridge technical depth with business needs.
- Experience launching features and products through MVP, Beta, and GA release cycles is preferred.
- Experience with supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation, LoRA, or full fine-tunes is preferred.
- Familiarity with open-source training frameworks and distributed training techniques is preferred.
- Experience developing AI products, tooling, or agents is preferred.
- Frontend fluency is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including meaningful equity, with no specific base salary stated.
- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage 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 learning and networking opportunities.
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About Baseten
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.