Software Engineer - Dedicated Inference

San Francisco, Toronto + 3 more

About the role

ABOUT BASETEN

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

As an Engineer on the Dedicated Inference team, you'll shape the state-of-the-art developer experience for deploying and operating AI workloads in production. From the CLI and SDKs to APIs, observability, and debugging workflows, you'll build the tools customers rely on every day to manage mission-critical inference deployments.

Few teams at Baseten have as much breadth and visibility as Dedicated Inference. The team is often at the forefront of new product development, giving engineers the opportunity to shape the experience of some of our most important customers.

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Dedicated Inference team:

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Implement new features and products for the team

  • Design ergonomic APIs and abstractions to solve customer problems

  • Fix bugs and resolve customer issues with urgency

  • Work across the stack - regardless of where you start, you’ll end up touching both React Components and Kubernetes Pods

  • Work closely with the product and forward deployed engineering teams to develop and drive new product ideas

REQUIREMENTS

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

  • Proficient coding abilities in one or more popular programming or scripting languages; Python, Go, or JavaScript proficiency is a plus

  • Familiarity with web applications & databases

  • Good taste in product, particularly developer-oriented tools

  • Interest in ML/AI infrastructure and willingness to learn

  • Strong collaboration and communication skills

BENEFITS

  • Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity

  • (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents

  • Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)

  • Paid parental leave

  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot

  • (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)

  • Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).

About Baseten

Baseten is an AI inference infrastructure platform that provides the tooling, expertise, and hardware for deploying and serving ML models at scale — including open-source, custom, and fine-tuned models — across multi-cloud environments. It targets developers and enterprises building production AI applications, offering dedicated deployments, serverless APIs, and proprietary inference runtimes optimized for speed, reliability, and cost efficiency. Its customers include Cursor, Notion, Writer, Patreon, and HeyGen.

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Job details

Location

San Francisco, Toronto + 3 more

Company

NameBaseten
IndustryAI Infrastructure
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$585M

Last stage

Growth

Investors

IVP
CCapitalG
Nvidia
Greylock
Spark Capital

Founders

TS

Tuhin Srivastava

Co-Founder & CEO

Amir Haghighat

Amir Haghighat

Co-Founder & CTO

LinkedIn
Phil Howes

Phil Howes

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.