Baseten

Base Labs Fellowship

San Francisco, Remote. Posted 4 months ago

The role

Researchers will conduct 3 months of full-time research to produce rigorous, published research. This work shapes the open-source ecosystem and Baseten's technical roadmap.

What you will do

  • Conduct full-time research
  • Produce rigorous, published research
  • Participate in 1:1 mentorship from a senior researcher

Required qualifications

  • Enrolled in or have recently completed a PhD in ML, AI, statistics, or a closely related field
  • Have a publication record or research portfolio that demonstrates original, rigorous thinking
  • Want to operate with autonomy
  • Excited to be in San Francisco for the duration of the program, fully embedded in the team
  • Drawn to the idea of building a research culture

Nice to have

  • Research engineers who have spent years inside a production stack
  • PhDs working on the wrong-shaped problem at the right-shaped lab
  • Operators who have been close to real systems

Benefits

  • Funding for compute and other research expenses
  • Opportunities to publish and present at top venues, including ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR
  • Housing, meals, travel, and compute are all handled

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for AI companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling. Base Labs is a research lab pushing the frontier of open-source LLMs.