Software Engineer - Model Performance Systems
Baseten · San Francisco · Toronto · New York · Montreal · Seattle
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Infrastructureremotemid-senior$165k–$330k
At a glance
Highlights
- Define the roadmap for next-gen AI infrastructure diagnostics and benchmarking.
- Build tools to find the Pareto frontier of latency vs. cost vs. quality.
- Your tools will gatekeep what defines good performance for customers.
What they offer
- Meaningful equity (U.S. only)
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision for employee and dependents
- Flexible PTO including company-wide Winter Break
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot (U.S. only)
- Company-facilitated 401(k)
- Exposure to ML startups for learning and networking
Ideal candidate
Systems-curious engineer who loves hardware, automation and understanding how LLMs really run. You thrive on vague problems, high ownership, and driving cross-team technical decisions.
Requirements
- Technical depth with strong communication skills to drive cross-team efforts
- Ability to navigate vague requirements and mentor other engineers
- Love for systems and hardware including GPU memory subsystems, InfiniBand and cluster data movement
- Automation mindset with passion for stress-testing and fuzz testing to find breaking points
- Mathematical curiosity about Transformers, FLOPs and memory requirements
- Familiarity with Python and eagerness to master NVIDIA software stack, C++ a plus
Lab profile
About Baseten
Powers mission-critical AI inference to bring cutting-edge models into production.
What they build
- Mission-critical inference platform
- Flexible infrastructure for production models
- Developer tooling for AI deployment
Known for
- Applied AI research
- Flexible infrastructure
- Seamless developer tooling
Key facts
- Raised Series F