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 to ship AI products.
THE ROLE
Baseten is looking for a Product Designer to help shape the next generation of our platform. You'll join a small design team with a lot of ownership and a high bar for craft, working across the entire Baseten product to solve hard problems for technical users.
This role covers the full arc of the work: early exploration through production. You'll establish patterns that show up across the product, evolve our design system, and raise the quality bar as we scale.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead product design end to end, including research, product definition, prototypes, design reviews, specs, and final implementation.
Work directly with engineering and product to frame problems, explore solutions, and ship quickly.
Collaborate with customers to understand their workflows, validate ideas, and test prototypes.
Push the visual and interaction quality of the Baseten product across surfaces.
Create interactions and details that make complex technical workflows feel clear, fast, and polished.
Evolve our design system and establish patterns that scale across a growing product.
Look across the product for opportunities to improve consistency, usability, and overall quality.
Get into the code with engineers to polish UI and make sure the shipped experience matches the design.
Help shape how the design team works and raise the bar for product quality across the company.
REQUIREMENTS
A portfolio that demonstrates strong visual and interaction design.
Experience designing complex, technical, or developer-focused products.
Ability to take an ambiguous problem, understand the underlying customer need, explore multiple approaches, and drive to a strong solution.
Deep attention to typography, layout, hierarchy, interaction, and systems.
Experience working directly with engineers and customers, without layers of process in between.
A fast, prototype-early working style that uses what you learn to iterate.
Ability to think beyond individual features and improve patterns and systems across a product.
Comfort with technical tools like Git and VS Code, and interest in working directly in React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
Strong product and design judgment, with the ability to articulate why something is good, what could be better, and when the work is ready to ship.
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
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
Company-facilitated 401(k)
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.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
Skills Required
- Portfolio demonstrating strong visual and interaction design
- Experience designing complex, technical, or developer-focused products
- Ability to understand customer needs, explore multiple approaches, and drive strong solutions for ambiguous problems
- Deep attention to typography, layout, hierarchy, interaction, and design systems
- Experience working directly with engineers and customers
- Fast, prototype-early working style with iterative learning
- Ability to improve product-wide patterns and systems beyond individual features
- Comfort with Git and VS Code
- Interest in working directly with React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or TypeScript
- Strong product and design judgment, including the ability to articulate quality and ship readiness
Baseten Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Baseten and has not been reviewed or approved by Baseten.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Feedback suggests pay targets the top of market with explicit ranges in postings and a stated aim to provide 90th percentile salaries with equity. Role descriptions emphasize competitive, experience-based pay bands and meaningful stock grants.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as fully covered for medical, dental, and vision for employees and their families, reducing out-of-pocket costs. This comprehensive coverage is consistently highlighted alongside other core benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off policies include unlimited PTO with a minimum expectation of at least four weeks, 16 paid company holidays, and a company-wide winter break. These elements indicate substantial protected time away from work.
Baseten Insights
What We Do
AI’s future won’t be a few massive models built by a handful of labs. It’ll be millions of specialized models embedded into every product, workflow, and experience by the people closest to the customer. The foundation of that future is inference. Inference determines the performance, reliability, latency, and economics of every AI product. For AI to scale globally, it must be as reliable, fast, cost-effective, and high-quality as possible. That’s why Baseten exists. Companies like Abridge, Cursor, Lovable, Notion, and OpenEvidence depend on Baseten to power mission-critical AI workloads in production.
Why Work With Us
We’re an interdisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and operators building the Inference Cloud our AI future demands. We’re running at a hard systems problem that requires first-principles thinking across the entire stack. The bar is high. We work hard, move fast, and care deeply about quality.
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