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
The largest, most demanding enterprises are starting to run on Baseten, and they arrive with a range of security, compliance, and procurement requirements. As a Senior Engineer on Baseten's enterprise engineering team, you'll build the capabilities that enable large organizations like Writer, HubSpot, and Notion to succeed on Baseten. Enterprise engineering authors the core building blocks, APIs, and user experiences powering the Baseten platform: identity and access management, billing, regional isolation, and self-hosted and single-tenant deployment options.
This is deep product and systems work across the full stack, from designing authentication and authorization systems using standards like OAuth and OIDC to shipping the admin experiences enterprise IT teams use to manage their organization.
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
Recent and upcoming work on the team:
Fine-grained authorization for users, service accounts, and agentic workloads
SSO and SCIM support, allowing customers to centralize and automate access to Baseten
Expanding the billing platform to support evolving pricing models, advanced data exports, and controls to manage spend
In-product management and enforcement of customer compliance requirements like data residency and HIPAA
Securing network paths in and out of a customer's models with private connectivity and ingress and egress restrictions
Allowing customers to run Baseten inside their own VPC, on-prem, or a dedicated single-tenant environment
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead complex, ambiguous engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
Make thoughtful architectural decisions, balancing near-term customer needs with long-term simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.
Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate user feedback and requests into product requirements and durable technical solutions.
Establish strong engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping teammates grow while raising the quality of design and execution across the team.
REQUIREMENTS
Experience building enterprise software, including work on one or more of: identity and access management, billing systems, multi-tenant isolation controls, private connectivity, or compliance program initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, develop and operate systems running at scale, and collaborate with customers to understand their needs.
Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Preferred: Experience building AI or data-intensive infrastructure products.
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
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or Kubernetes-based solutions in production environments
- Past experience working with enterprise security, compliance, and privacy requirements
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Preferred experience working with AI/ML systems or familiarity with MLOps practices
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.
