Compute Strategy & Operations

The role

You will own the end-to-end capacity planning process by translating customer commitments and growth forecasts into supply requirements. You will coordinate fulfillment across vendors, finance, and infrastructure teams to build repeatable and scalable systems.

What you will do

• Own the capacity planning process end to end including intake, triage, prioritization, fulfillment tracking, and post-mortem learnings
• Translate customer commitments, sales pipeline, and infrastructure growth targets into concrete GPU demand forecasts
• Partner with Finance to model capacity scenarios, evaluate new supply opportunities, and support CapEx decision-making
• Work closely with the Capacity Acquisition team to align supply procurement with forward demand
• Coordinate cross-functionally across Sales, SRE, and Infrastructure teams to resolve capacity conflicts
• Build and maintain the operational cadence for capacity planning
• Develop reporting and dashboards for leadership regarding capacity health, utilization trends, and risk exposure
• Identify recurring operational gaps and drive process improvements

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, finance, or a similarly analytical and execution-oriented role
• Demonstrated ability to own complex, cross-functional processes with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Strong quantitative and modeling skills
• Excellent communication skills
• High ownership mindset
• Operates well under pressure and in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Nice to have

• Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, cloud platforms, or AI/ML ecosystem
• Experience in a high-growth startup or Series B+ environment where operational processes were being built from scratch
• Exposure to vendor or partner management, particularly in hardware, cloud, or infrastructure contexts

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents (U.S. only)
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k) (U.S. only)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for AI companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F.