Base Labs Research Scientist

The role

You will pursue research at the intersection of post-training methodology and performant inference. You will design experiments and collaborate with research engineering to translate findings into production systems.

What you will do

• Define and pursue a research agenda spanning foundational and applied work.
• Design and execute rigorous experiments at scale.
• Work with customers to translate requirements into research problems.
• Publish at top venues like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR.
• Collaborate with model performance and training infrastructure teams.
• Mentor junior researchers and shape technical direction.

Required qualifications

• Willingness to operate in a startup environment where research informs product decisions.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD research depth in machine learning, with first-author publications at top venues
• Demonstrated ability to move from theory through implementation to empirical results
• Judgment about problem selection
• Background spanning multiple research areas (e.g., both interpretability and RL, or both systems and training methodology)
• Track record of open-source contributions or community building in ML research

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.