AI Inference Engineer

The role

You will partner with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten's platform. This engineering role includes hands-on coding, product management, technical customer success, and pre-sales solution engineering.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain software systems and product features using general-purpose programming languages.
• Design, implement, and deploy Baseten solutions end-to-end.
• Work with customers' engineering teams during sales, implementation, and expansion.
• Turn vague objectives into clear specs and well-defined PoCs.
• Optimize and enhance AI/ML projects and contribute to the technical stack.
• Develop features and PRDs with engineering and product orgs.
• Own products and customer projects end-to-end as an engineer, project manager, and product manager.
• Navigate ambiguity and exercise judgment on tradeoffs and tools.
• Demonstrate pride, ownership, and accountability for work.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 2+ years of professional work experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Demonstrated experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages in a production-level environment.
• Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and the lifecycle of ML model development and deployment.
• Strong communication skills, particularly on complex technical topics.

Nice to have

• Python
• Experience in building or optimizing AI/ML projects

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 dynamic AI companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F.