Manager, Solutions Architect

Baseten

Manager leading Solution Architect team for an AI platform company. Mentoring and guiding technical solutions for customer engagements and deployment.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $165,000 - $330,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solution Architects, providing guidance on technical direction, project execution, and professional development.
Set clear goals and ensure timely, high-quality delivery across multiple customer-facing projects involving LLM deployment and inference optimization.
Collaborate with leadership to align team priorities with company and customer goals, balancing short-term delivery, widely varying customer priorities, and long-term technical initiatives.
Player-coach – While much of this role will be leading the team, you will also be expected to be a key driver on strategic product initiatives and customer engagements. The best managers derive credibility from being able to be hands-on when needed.
Partner with sales on customer discovery calls (most often second calls, occasionally first calls for large accounts).
Lead demos and technical scoping to align on success criteria, architecture, and deployment approach.
Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments, including handling standard deployment patterns and configurations across many modalities – LLMs, embeddings, image and video generation, VoiceAI, etc.
Advising on tradeoffs like H100s vs B200s and latency-optimized vs throughput-optimized setups.
Driving consistent “playbook” style deployments for common models and use cases.
Become a power user of different runtimes such as vllm, sglang, and TRT-LMM and all the common configurations and tradeoffs between them
Drive POC and project execution, including scoping POCs and keeping stakeholders aligned on timeline, deliverables, and next steps.
Acting as the “ringleader” or project manager for POCs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

AI/ML background and the ability to credibly discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders.
4+ years of professional Solution Architecture/Solutions Engineering experience, including 1+ year in a leadership or mentorship capacity.
Strong customer-facing communication skills, including the ability to run structured discovery and clarify ambiguous requirements.
Technical depth to scope solutions, without needing to write production code.
Ability to script and prototype as needed, including comfort “vibe coding” to move quickly in technical workflows.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Solution ArchitectureAI/MLLLM deploymentinference optimizationbenchmarkingVoiceAIvllmsglangTRT-LMMscripting

Soft Skills

leadershipmentorshipcustomer-facing communicationproject managementcollaborationgoal settingtechnical guidanceproblem-solvingstakeholder alignmentstructured discovery