Baseten

Account Executive

• Own a revenue target and all aspects of the sales cycle from prospecting to close, including outbounding and engaging Tier 1 accounts in your assigned verticals
• Drive new logo acquisition and strategic expansion within key accounts, prioritizing organizations that can serve as lighthouse customers within their industries
• Become a trusted advisor to customers—understand their unique infrastructure needs, co-innovate on solutions, and lead with conviction by providing clear recommendations grounded in deep industry expertise
• Partner with Baseten’s forward-deployed engineers to run technical evaluations, POCs, and architecture reviews that earn customer confidence
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Marketing to bring new solutions to market, develop sales collateral, and refine go-to-market tactics for industry verticals
• Continuously share learnings with the broader team—what’s working, what’s blocking deals, and best practices for selling into complex organizations

Account Executive, Industries

Research Scientist

• Define and pursue a research agenda spanning both pure and applied work, with the applied component connected to Baseten's platform and customer needs
• Design and execute rigorous experiments, frequently at meaningful scale (multi-node, 1T+ parameter models)
• Publish at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and establish Baseten's research presence
• Collaborate with model performance and training infrastructure teams to bridge research findings and production systems
• Mentor junior researchers and shape the technical direction of the research organization as it grows

Post-Training Research Scientist

Full-stack Engineer

• Design and architect scalable infrastructure systems for our ML inference platform
• Lead optimization of Kubernetes deployments for efficient, cost-effective model serving
• Drive enhancements to our inference orchestration layer for complex model deployments
• Define monitoring strategies for model performance, latency, and resource utilization
• Develop advanced solutions for GPU capacity management and throughput optimization
• Establish infrastructure automation standards to streamline ML deployment workflows
• Partner with other engineers to translate complex inference requirements into technical solutions
• Make critical architectural decisions balancing performance with system reliability
• Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers on infrastructure best practices
• Contribute to long-term technical strategy and infrastructure roadmap

Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure

Manager

• Own and evolve Baseten’s company-wide compensation strategy, philosophy, and programs.
• Collaborate with leadership and HRBP to create and evolve job architecture and leveling frameworks.
• Build and maintain compensation bands. Conduct regular market benchmarking to ensure comp bands and strategy remain competitive in a fast moving industry.
• Partner closely with Talent to design and approve competitive new hire offers, advising on negotiation strategy within our compensation principles.
• Lead bi-annual leveling and compensation review cycles to ensure market competitiveness and reward high performance across teams.
• Manage new hire equity grants in partnership with Finance and Legal. Design and administer a thoughtful equity refresher program for tenured employees.
• Oversee annual bonus planning and payouts, ensuring alignment with company performance and individual impact.
• Partner with HRBPs and managers on compensation decisions related to promotions, retention, recognition, and off-cycle adjustments.
• Select and optimize compensation tooling, ensuring data integrity, operational efficiency, and thoughtful use of automation.

Manager, Compensation

Program Manager

• Own the end-to-end onboarding experience
• Own the new hire journey from signed offer through the first 90 days.
• Design structured touch points that build clarity, connection, and momentum.
• Welcome new hires in San Francisco on Day 1 and set the tone for their Baseten experience.
• Teach the story, culture, and product
• Design engaging ways to teach who we are: where we came from, what we value, how we work, and where we’re headed.
• Bring our culture to life through creative programming, incorporating executives, founders, customer stories, and real examples of how we build.
• Build and continuously improve onboarding curriculum across live and async formats.
• Partner with subject matter experts to design and deliver training on highly technical concepts (e.g., deploying a model).
• Develop specialized onboarding tracks for different teams and roles.
• Drive clarity and accelerate ramp time
• Equip managers with practical tools and guidance to deliver strong, role-specific onboarding within their teams.
• Ensure every new hire has clear expectations, defined success metrics, and meaningful early wins.
• Design onboarding for velocity. At Baseten, new hires begin contributing immediately while they ramp. (For example, engineers ship code within days and present at Show and Tell within weeks). Onboarding should accelerate ownership, not delay it.
• Build programs that scale
• Partner with People Ops, IT, and Workplace Experience to ensure seamless Day 1 readiness.
• Manage program logistics including scheduling, coordination, and attendance tracking.
• Own our onboarding infrastructure, including LMS tools and systems for delivering live and async learning.
• Track engagement and outcomes, collect feedback, and continuously iterate to improve effectiveness as we grow.

Onboarding Program Manager

People Operations

• Lead and develop the People Operations team, setting a high bar for operational excellence, accountability, and service
• Drive operational efficiencies across People systems and workflows, leveraging automation and AI to support rapid growth and scaling
• Own HRIS strategy and systems architecture, including integrations, data governance, reporting infrastructure, and access controls to ensure reliable and scalable People data
• Establish and maintain strong internal controls across People systems and processes, including employee data privacy, security, and audit readiness in partnership with IT and Legal
• Evaluate the right timing and approach for migrating off a PEO and, when appropriate, lead a successful transition to a scalable in-house model
• Own employment compliance across jurisdictions, including state registrations, regulatory requirements, and policy governance frameworks
• Define and implement leave policies and ensure compliant administration
• Oversee anonymous reporting systems and investigations infrastructure
• Maintain and evolve our employee handbook and internal wiki, ensuring policies are clear, current, and well-governed
• Lead visa and immigration operations and support global expansion, including international compliance and EOR oversight
• Partner with Finance on payroll operations, including compensation operations governance, pay change controls, and accuracy of promotions, equity, and variable compensation processing
• Own benefits selection, vendor strategy, and ongoing optimization
• Operationally support employee lifecycle changes including new hire onboarding, role changes, promotions, compensation adjustments, organizational updates, and terminations

Manager, People Operations

• Own Baseten’s end-to-end billing and revenue infrastructure, including pricing, invoicing, metering, and reporting foundations.
• Build and evolve our billing platform and integrations (including Orb), ensuring correctness, auditability, and a high-trust experience for customers and internal teams.
• Partner closely with Finance, Sales, GTM, and Forward Deployed Engineering to turn real-world workflows into reliable internal tooling and automation (quoting, approvals, renewals, usage reconciliation, revenue reporting).
• Design systems that scale with new products, packaging, and go-to-market motions, making billing a strategic lever for growth.
• Drive reliability and operational excellence for revenue-critical workflows: monitoring, alerting, incident response, backfills, and clear runbooks.
• Lead from the front on high-impact projects: clarify requirements, propose crisp technical approaches, ship iteratively, and raise the bar on quality and velocity.
• Debug and resolve production issues with urgency, communicating clearly with stakeholders and closing the loop with durable fixes.

Senior Software Engineer – Billing and Internal Tooling

• Own the end-to-end operationalization of marketing campaigns across paid, lifecycle, content, and ABM.
• Build and enforce QA standards to ensure every campaign is deployed accurately (tracking, routing, segmentation, reporting).
• Maintain clear performance reporting across funnel stages (traffic → MQL → SQL → pipeline → revenue).
• Run the marketing operating rhythm: bi-weekly planning, sprint tracking, roadmap visibility, and QBR execution.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Marketing, Sales, RevOps, and Design to keep initiatives on track.
• Continuously improve documentation, process, and workflow automation to make marketing more scalable.

Program Manager, Marketing

Solutions Engineer

• 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.
• - Pulling in Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) support when deeper or more complex technical work is needed.

Solution Architect

• Make RDMA First-Class: Integrate RDMA/RoCE/InfiniBand capabilities into our inference stack.
• Optimize Distributed Inference: Implement and tune networking layers for Disaggregated KV Cache Offload and WideEP.
• Enable Serverless-Grade Startup Speeds for LLMs: Work with checkpointing and storage for sub-10-second startup for models.
• Deep-Dive into Hardware: Validate networking performance on bleeding-edge clusters and write acceptance tests.
• Build Observability: Design tools to visualize packet flow and diagnose distributed system behaviors.
• Optimize Kernels: Work with communication libraries (NCCL, NVSHMEM) and write custom kernels to overlap compute and data transfer.