Baseten
Solution Architect (AI/LLM Inference)
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 73 days ago
Machine LearningSparkLLMsProject ManagementResearchCommunication
About the role
- As a Solution Architect (AI/LLM Inference) at Baseten you will partner closely with Sales and customers to translate business needs into technical solutions, run technical discovery, and guide repeatable deployments and proofs of value for customers.
- This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial, customer-facing technical professionals who want a front-row view into how modern companies adopt AI at scale, and who enjoy working across technical discovery, solution design, demos, deployment scoping, and hands-on customer implementations, in close partnership with Sales and Engineering.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Pulling in Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) support when deeper or more complex technical work is needed.
- We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-series-f/, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital.
- Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products.
Requirements
- AI/ML background and the ability to credibly discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders.
- Strong customer-facing communication skills, including the ability to run structured discovery and clarify ambiguous requirements.
- Ability to script and prototype as needed, including comfort "vibe coding" to move quickly in technical workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience running or supporting benchmarks for ML inference deployments.
- Familiarity with infrastructure tradeoffs relevant to inference performance and cost (for example GPU selection and latency versus throughput tuning).
- Company-facilitated 401(k)
Compensation
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
Benefits
- 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
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
- 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.
- 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.
Company info
- At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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