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
We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to craft performant and delightful user experiences across Baseten’s core platform. You’ll own critical parts of our web application stack and collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and backend teams to launch impactful features that help users deploy and manage AI systems at scale.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Core Product team:
Rolling Deployments
Model APIs for frontier models
Model training built for production inference
RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, implement, and maintain responsive, accessible, and user-friendly frontend interfaces using React and TypeScript
Collaborate closely with product designers to turn complex ideas into elegant, intuitive UIs
Optimize application performance and reliability, with a focus on rendering speed and responsiveness
Drive major frontend initiatives, including partnering with backend teams to define APIs and test and refine end-to-end flows
Eestablish best practices, and mentor other engineers on frontend technologies
Build reusable component libraries and frontend infrastructure that accelerate product development
Partner with backend and platform teams to define and refine APIs and end-to-end flows
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of experience building production-grade web applications
Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern web development tooling
Track record of building well-crafted, performant, and scalable UIs
Strong product intuition and empathy for the user experience
Experience working in cross-functional product teams in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
NICE TO HAVE
Familiarity with Tailwind CSS, Next.js, or other modern frontend frameworks
Background in developer tools or data/ML infrastructure products
Experience with WebSockets, real-time data, or custom visualization tooling
Contributions to open-source projects or public engineering work
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
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade web applications
- Deep expertise in React
- Deep expertise in TypeScript
- Experience with modern web development tooling and building performant, scalable UIs
- Strong product intuition and empathy for the user experience
- Experience working in cross-functional product teams in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Familiarity with Tailwind CSS
- Familiarity with Next.js
- Experience with WebSockets or real-time data
- Background in developer tools or data/ML infrastructure products
- Contributions to open-source projects or public engineering work
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.
