AI Engineer

Baseten
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 220,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Autonomy","Problem-solving","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Build and ship agentic product experiences for training and post-training frontier models, from prototype to GA. Design harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make AI systems reliable, and define evals to measure output quality improvements. Partner with research engineers to turn internal research loops into customer-facing features, working end to end across APIs, backend, agent orchestration, and frontend. Also automate internal workflows to increase engineering and go-to-market velocity.

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AI Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and ship agentic product experiences for training and post-training frontier models, from prototype to GA. Design harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make AI systems reliable, and define evals to measure output quality improvements. Partner with research engineers to turn internal research loops into customer-facing features, working end to end across APIs, backend, agent orchestration, and frontend. Also automate internal workflows to increase engineering and go-to-market velocity.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and ship agentic product experiences (chat-style and assistant-like) from prototype to GA.
  • •Design harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails to make AI systems reliable in production.
  • •Create internal automation and AI tooling that increases engineering, research, and go-to-market velocity.
  • •Define and instrument evals to determine whether changes improve output quality.
  • •Implement features end to end across the stack and fix bugs to resolve customer issues urgently.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 260,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveParental Leave401k

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building and shipping software applications.
  • •Demonstrated experience building AI/LLM-powered products, agents, or agentic workflows used by real users.
  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to meet a technical bar beyond prompting.
  • •Proficiency in Python, with fluency in at least one other language.
  • •Ability to work autonomously in a fast-moving environment and bridge technical depth with business needs.
Experience:5+ yearsAILLMAgentic workflowsML startupsTraining products
Skills:CommunicationAutonomyProblem-solvingCross-functional collaboration
Tech Stack:PythonAPI layerBackendAgent orchestrationFrontendLangChainClaude CodeCodexOpenCodeMCPNVIDIA Nemotron 3 UltraLoRASupervised fine-tuningReinforcement learningSynthetic data generation

Company Brief

Baseten
Baseten provides an inference-first ML infrastructure platform that lets engineering and ML teams deploy, serve, and scale machine-learning models with optimized performance, autoscaling, and GPU-backed hosting for production AI applications. ([crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baseten?utm_source=openai))
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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