About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic partner integrations from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, launch, and production operation
- Work directly with partner engineering teams to design APIs, define system boundaries, resolve cross-company dependencies, and make architectural decisions
- Write substantial production code and own the systems you build
- Build reusable partner-platform primitives across identity, provisioning, inference, model serving, metering, billing, and other Baseten platform capabilities
- Own technical delivery across Baseten and partner teams, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and architectural tradeoffs
- Work closely with Partnerships and Product to understand where the ecosystem is going and translate emerging opportunities into platform investments
- Raise the bar for integration reliability through strong API contracts, testing, observability, safe rollouts, and thoughtful failure handling
- Help define what Partner Engineering becomes at Baseten as both the team and our ecosystem grow
Requirements
- Experience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- A record of leading ambiguous engineering projects across teams while contributing substantial production code yourself
- Sound judgment about API design, service boundaries, and failure handling
- Experience turning requests from customers, partners, or other engineering teams into a defined technical scope
- Comfort working across application code and cloud infrastructure, including debugging behavior that crosses service boundaries
Nice to have
- Product integrations with cloud providers, developer platforms, or other infrastructure companies
- Usage metering, marketplace infrastructure, or commerce systems that support relationships among multiple parties
- Model serving or other artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure used in production
Conditions
- 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
- 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