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 ship AI products.
THE ROLE
We are bringing our people systems in-house on Workday, and we are hiring our first dedicated Workday Analyst to make it excellent. You will join while the implementation is underway, ramp alongside our deployment partner, and own the tenant from go-live onward. This is a hands-on configuration role: you will build business processes, manage security, load data, and test releases yourself, and you will teach others on the People team to do the same as we grow. If you want to shape a Workday environment from its first day in production instead of inheriting years of someone else's decisions, this is that rare opening.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Own day-to-day Workday configuration: business processes, security groups and roles, custom reports, calculated fields, and tenant settings
Build and run EIB loads for data changes, mass updates, and audits
Own the twice-yearly Workday release cycle: evaluate new features, regression-test, and roll out changes safely
Shadow the implementation build, then take over tenant ownership at go-live
Monitor integrations and triage issues with our IT team and vendors
Support payroll configuration in partnership with our Accounting team and payroll services provider
Field and resolve system requests from employees, managers, and the People team
Mentor teammates so Workday administration becomes a team capability, not a single point of failure
REQUIREMENTS
4+ years administering a live Workday tenant in-house (customer side, not consulting)
Deep Workday HCM core: business process configuration, security administration, and Report Writer
Fluent with EIBs and comfortable owning data loads end to end
Have shipped multiple Workday releases and know how to test them
A builder's temperament: you do the configuration yourself and like it that way
Clear written communication for documentation and change notes
Excitement about a pace that's faster than anywhere you've worked before
You'd rather improve on your old playbooks than reuse them as-is, and you're interested in AI tools that help you do it
NICE TO HAVE
Workday Payroll configuration experience
Workday Benefits module configuration (plan and enrollment event setup)
Workday Absence Management configuration (time off and leave plans)
Workday Pro or similar certifications
Commutable to our San Francisco or New York office
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
(U.S. only) 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
(U.S. only) 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
- 4+ years administering a live Workday tenant in-house on the customer side
- Deep Workday HCM Core experience, including business process configuration, security administration, and Report Writer
- Fluency with EIBs and ability to own data loads end to end
- Experience shipping multiple Workday releases and testing them
- Hands-on configuration experience and willingness to perform configuration directly
- Clear written communication for documentation and change notes
- Workday Payroll configuration experience
- Workday Benefits configuration experience
- Workday Absence Management configuration experience
- Workday Pro or similar certification
- Commutable to the San Francisco or New York office
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.
