AI Engineer
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Baseten is an AI inference platform for deploying, optimizing, and scaling custom, open-source, and fine-tuned models in production.
San Francisco, United States
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About Baseten
Baseten provides model runtimes, inference infrastructure, developer workflows, and deployment options including managed cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid environments.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and ship agentic product experiences, from prototypes through general availability. You will design reliable AI harnesses, execution flows, guardrails, and evaluations; work across the API, backend, orchestration, and frontend; turn research workflows into customer features; and resolve customer issues quickly.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping software applications
- Experience building AI or LLM-powered products, agents, or agentic workflows
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Ability to understand systems, models, and harnesses deeply
- Proficiency in Python and fluency in at least one other language
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-moving environment
- Ability to work across customer-facing products and internal tooling
- Strong communication skills
Responsibilities
- Build and ship agentic product experiences from prototype to general availability
- Design AI harnesses, execution flows, and production guardrails
- Build internal AI automation and tooling
- Turn research workflows into customer-facing features
- Define and instrument evaluations for output quality
- Implement end-to-end features across the stack
- Use training and inference products to understand customer workflows
- Replace manual processes with AI systems
- Fix bugs and resolve customer issues urgently
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for U.S. employees and dependents
- Flexible PTO
- Company-wide Winter Break
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- Company-facilitated 401(k) for U.S. employees
