Senior Software Engineer - Core Product

About Baseten

Join our dynamic team at Baseten, where we’re revolutionizing AI deployment with cutting-edge inference infrastructure. Backed by premier investors such as IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction, we’re trusted by leading enterprises and AI-driven innovators—including Descript, Bland.ai, Patreon, Writer, and Robust Intelligence—to deliver top-tier performance, security, and reliability for their production workloads. With our recent $75 million Series C funding, we’re poised to accelerate our mission to make AI accessible across all products. If you’re passionate about tackling impactful challenges and building transformative solutions from the ground up, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey!

THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Product team at Baseten, you'll be building and maintaining the core Baseten product, enabling users to deploy & get value from ML models as easily as possible. This team is at the forefront of all new product development at the company. As a developer-oriented product, we have a massive surface area, including all of our CLI tools, REST APIs, and the web application. Some of the projects we have in the pipeline:

• Fine-tuning: Enabling customers to fine-tune large models on our platform
• Environments for deployments: Allow easy integration of model deployment with CI/CD workflows
• Websockets: Enabling low-latency inference scenarios
  
  

As a team, we believe great ideas can come from anyone, and encourage all team members to think critically, pay attention to how customers are using the product, and use those insights to drive new product ideas.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead projects and areas of the product
• Mentor & develop junior engineers
• Design ergonomic APIs and abstractions to solve customer problems. Enable more junior engineers to do the same
• Fix bugs & resolve customer issues with urgency
• Drive long-term improvements to improve reliability of systems and velocity of development
• Work closely with the product & forward deployed engineering teams to develop and drive new product ideas
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years experience building software applications
• Deep knowledge of the web stack & 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 package (Unlimited PTO, 401k, covered healthcare premiums).
• A unique opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing startup in one of the most exciting engineering fields of our era.
• An inclusive and supportive work culture that fosters learning and growth.
• 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.

Compensation Range: $190K - $250K

Join our dynamic team at Baseten, where we’re revolutionizing AI deployment with cutting-edge inference infrastructure. Backed by premier investors such as IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction, we’re trusted by leading enterprises and AI-driven innovators—including Descript, Bland.ai, Patreon, Writer, and Robust Intelligence—to deliver top-tier performance, security, and reliability for their production workloads. With our recent $75 million Series C funding, we’re poised to accelerate our mission to make AI accessible across all products.