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Software Engineer - Model Performance Systems

Baseten · San Francisco · Toronto · New York · Montreal · Seattle

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Infrastructureremotemid-senior$165k–$330k
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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
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