About the role
Baseten is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer on its Applied AI Inference team.
Baseten runs production inference for AI companies like Cursor, Notion and Writer (it recently raised a $300M Series E). This role pairs you directly with those customers: you architect, build and deploy high-scale AI applications on Baseten's platform, owning the path from initial exploration to production with clear targets for quality, latency and cost. It is explicitly an engineering job with hands-on coding (Python preferred for the ML work), plus elements of product management, technical customer success and pre-sales solution engineering.
You turn vague business goals into specs and PoCs, ship well-tested services, and optimize AI/ML projects across the stack. They want 2+ years in a fast-paced environment, familiarity with ML pipelines and the full model development-to-deployment lifecycle, and strong communication on complex technical topics.
What stands out is the front-row seat: you see how dozens of frontier AI companies actually put models into production, which is rare exposure for a single role.
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