Post-Training Research Scientist

Baseten
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 210,000 - 285,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration","Leadership"]

Research-focused role at the frontier of post-training methodologies and efficient inference, blending pure research with production-oriented development. You’ll design experiments at scale, publish in top venues, and collaborate with model performance and training infra teams while mentoring junior researchers in a startup environment.

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Baseten
Baseten
4 months ago

Post-Training Research Scientist

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Job Summary

Research-focused role at the frontier of post-training methodologies and efficient inference, blending pure research with production-oriented development. You’ll design experiments at scale, publish in top venues, and collaborate with model performance and training infra teams while mentoring junior researchers in a startup environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and pursue a research agenda spanning both pure and applied work, with the applied component connected to Baseten's platform and customer needs
  • •Design and execute rigorous experiments, frequently at meaningful scale (multi-node, 1T+ parameter models)
  • •Publish at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and establish Baseten's research presence
  • •Collaborate with model performance and training infrastructure teams to bridge research findings and production systems
  • •Mentor junior researchers and shape the technical direction of the research organization as it grows

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 210,000 - 285,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquityRemote WorkParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •PhD in machine learning or equivalent depth with first-author publications at top venues
  • •Ability to move from theory through implementation to empirical results, not exclusively theoretical or engineering work
  • •Demonstrated judgment in problem selection and distinguishing research that advances a metric from research that changes how systems are built
  • •Willingness to operate in a startup environment where timelines are measured in months rather than years
  • •Experience designing clean, rigorous experiments and translating research findings into production readiness
Experience:Machine learningAI research
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationLeadership

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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