Baseten
Data Scientist (Analytics)
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still checked daily, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$185,000–$260,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Data
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
We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build and scale our internal analytics capabilities. This is a foundational role where you’ll create dashboards, models and insights to power business and product teams alike. You’ll collect requirements, define key metrics, and deliver recommendations directly to stakeholders. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape Baseten’s product and strategy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Build and maintain production-grade models and dashboards across multiple functions with a focus on accuracy, simplicity and user experience.
Define and instrument core metrics around capacity, availability, ROI, product adoption, revenue and costs.
Ingest and transform raw data using tools like dbt, Airbyte, and Databricks.
Partner with Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and Sales teams to understand goals and translate them into data solutions
Analyze product, operational and commercial data to identify opportunities, quantify tradeoffs, and influence product and GTM priorities.
Present findings and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences, including company leaders.
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of experience in analytics, BI, or data engineering roles
Strong SQL skills with the ability to write complex queries for data transformation and analysis
Experience designing medallion data architectures, including raw, conformed, and business-ready models with testing, documentation, and lineage.
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams
Demonstrated ability to explain complex work and make clear recommendations to technical and business audiences.
NICE TO HAVE
Experience with AI infrastructure, developer platforms, or inference.
Hands-on forecasting expertise, including ARIMA, Prophet, or comparable time-series methods, with disciplined backtesting, error analysis, and scenario planning.
Working knowledge of model-serving and training workflows and the infrastructure metrics that shape performance and cost.
Practical experimentation experience, including test design, power analysis and knowing when directional evidence is sufficient to act.
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
Requirements
- ·5+ years of experience in analytics, BI, or data engineering roles
- ·Strong SQL skills with the ability to write complex queries for data transformation and analysis
- ·Experience designing medallion data architectures, including raw, conformed, and business-ready models with testing, documentation, and lineage.
- ·Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams
- ·Demonstrated ability to explain complex work and make clear recommendations to technical and business audiences.
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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