Manager, Solutions Architect

The role

You will lead and mentor a team of Solution Architects to translate business needs into technical solutions. You will guide the team through discovery, demos, technical scoping, and POC execution while designing and managing AI applications on Baseten's platform.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solution Architects
• Set clear goals and ensure high-quality delivery for customer projects
• Collaborate with leadership to align team priorities with company goals
• Drive strategic product initiatives and customer engagements as a player-coach
• Partner with sales on customer discovery calls
• Lead demos and technical scoping to align on success criteria and architecture
• Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments for various modalities
• Advise on hardware and performance tradeoffs
• Drive POC and project execution by acting as a project manager
• Pull in Forward Deployed Engineering support for complex technical work

Required qualifications

• AI/ML background and the ability to discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders
• 4+ years of professional Solution Architecture/Solutions Engineering experience
• 1+ year in a leadership or mentorship capacity
• Strong customer-facing communication skills
• Technical depth to scope solutions without needing to write production code
• Ability to script and prototype as needed

Nice to have

• Experience running or supporting benchmarks for ML inference deployments
• Familiarity with infrastructure tradeoffs relevant to inference performance and cost
• Experience serving as a cross-functional technical lead for customer POCs
• Professional Software engineering experience

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 developer tooling. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F.