Baseten
AI Engineer
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 2 days ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still checked daily, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$220,000–$260,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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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
Are you the person on your team who builds the agent everyone else ends up using? We're looking for an AI Engineer to join our Training Product team and do that at Baseten. You'll build AI-driven product features for the customers training and post-training frontier models on our platform, and you'll raise the ceiling on how Baseten itself uses AI internally, turning manual workflows into agentic ones that make every other team faster.
You'll work directly with our research engineers to scope and build products, taking ideas from a research loop that already works internally to something customers can run themselves. This is a hands-on role with real autonomy. You'll pick the problems worth solving, build the harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make AI systems reliable, and own the results. If you've been shipping agents and want that to be the job, let's talk.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
Take a look at these blog posts written by members of our team:
Baseten Training: an autoresearch substrate
Introducing Baseten Loops
Harnesses are everything. Here's how to optimize yours.
Building with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra and LangChain Deep Agents Code on Baseten
RESPONSIBILITIES
Build and ship agentic product experiences, including chat-style and assistant-like interfaces, from prototype to GA.
Design the harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make AI systems reliable in production.
Build internal automation and AI tooling that measurably increases the velocity of engineering, research, and go-to-market teams.
Partner with research engineers to scope product opportunities out of internal research workflows and turn them into customer-facing features.
Define and instrument evals so you know whether a change actually improved output quality.
Work throughout the stack (API layer, backend, agent orchestration, frontend) to implement features end to end.
Use Baseten's own training and inference products yourself to develop intuition around customer workflows.
Identify where AI can replace manual process across the company and build the thing rather than write the proposal.
Fix bugs and resolve customer issues with urgency.
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of experience building and shipping software applications.
Demonstrated experience building AI or LLM-powered products, agents, or agentic workflows that real users depend on.
Requirements
- ·5+ years of experience building and shipping software applications.
- ·Demonstrated experience building AI or LLM-powered products, agents, or agentic workflows that real users depend on.
- ·Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to clear a real technical bar, not just prompt well.
- ·Ability to build accurate mental models of how systems work under the hood, including the models and harnesses you're building on.
- ·Proficiency in Python, with fluency in at least one other language.
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
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Baseten, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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