Base Labs Fellowship

Baseten
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 5,000 - 5,000 monthlyFunction: Laboratory & Clinical OperationsEducation: phdSkills: ["Autonomy","Research impact orientation"]

Conduct 3 months of full-time frontier research in ML/AI and open-source LLMs from the San Francisco office, working under a dedicated 1:1 mentorship from senior researchers. Your work is supported with compute funding and research expenses, with opportunities to publish and present at top venues. The research directly informs Baseten’s technical roadmap and can lead to a full-time offer for top performers.

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Base Labs Fellowship

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Job Summary

Conduct 3 months of full-time frontier research in ML/AI and open-source LLMs from the San Francisco office, working under a dedicated 1:1 mentorship from senior researchers. Your work is supported with compute funding and research expenses, with opportunities to publish and present at top venues. The research directly informs Baseten’s technical roadmap and can lead to a full-time offer for top performers.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Laboratory & Clinical Operations
Seniority: Graduate level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Perform 3 months of full-time research from the San Francisco office.
  • •Work with a dedicated 1:1 senior researcher mentor across the fellowship cohort.
  • •Develop rigorous, published research that shapes the open-source ecosystem.
  • •Use compute and research funding to pursue frontier problems.
  • •Publish and present at top venues, and be considered for full-time roles for strongest performers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 5,000 monthly
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeavePaid Parental401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Enrolled in or have recently completed a PhD in ML, AI, statistics, or a closely related field
  • •Have a publication record or research portfolio demonstrating original, rigorous thinking
  • •Care about the impact of your work—why the problem matters
  • •Want to operate with autonomy and don't need a defined roadmap to do your best work
  • •Be excited to be in San Francisco for the duration of the program, fully embedded with the team
Experience:Open-source LLMsMachine learningAI research
Education:PhD / Doctorate in ML, AI, statistics, or closely related field
Skills:AutonomyResearch impact orientation
Tech Stack:MLAIStatisticsOpen-source LLMsICMLNeurIPSGrace Hopper

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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