Baseten

2 months ago

Manager, Solutions Architect

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Job Summary

Lead and grow a team of Solution Architects, partnering with Sales and customers to translate business needs into technical solutions. Drive discovery calls, demos, and scoping, guide POCs to execution, and design high-performance, low-latency AI applications on Baseten’s platform, ensuring best-in-class LLM performance, reliability, and cost efficiency in production alongside product and infrastructure teams.

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solution Architects, providing guidance on technical direction, project execution, and professional development.
•Set clear goals and ensure timely, high-quality delivery across multiple customer-facing projects involving LLM deployment and inference optimization.
•Collaborate with leadership to align team priorities with company and customer goals, balancing short-term delivery, widely varying customer priorities, and long-term technical initiatives.
•Player-coach – While much of this role will be leading the team, you will also be expected to be a key driver on strategic product initiatives and customer engagements.
•Drive POC and project execution, including scoping POCs, keeping stakeholders aligned on timeline, deliverables, and next steps.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 165,000 - 330,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceVision401kEquity

Key Requirements

•AI/ML background and the ability to credibly discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders.
•4+ years of professional Solution Architecture/Solutions Engineering experience, including 1+ year in a leadership or mentorship capacity.
•Strong customer-facing communication skills, including the ability to run structured discovery and clarify ambiguous requirements.
•Technical depth to scope solutions, without needing to write production code.
•Ability to script and prototype as needed, including comfort “vibe coding” to move quickly in technical workflows.

Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentorshipCustomer-facingProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:VllmSglangTRT-LMMGPUH100B200Docker

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

Glassdoor: 5.0

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Baseten

2 months ago

Manager, Solutions Architect

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 12 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solution Architects, providing guidance on technical direction, project execution, and professional development.
•Set clear goals and ensure timely, high-quality delivery across multiple customer-facing projects involving LLM deployment and inference optimization.
•Collaborate with leadership to align team priorities with company and customer goals, balancing short-term delivery, widely varying customer priorities, and long-term technical initiatives.
•Player-coach – While much of this role will be leading the team, you will also be expected to be a key driver on strategic product initiatives and customer engagements.
•Drive POC and project execution, including scoping POCs, keeping stakeholders aligned on timeline, deliverables, and next steps.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 165,000 - 330,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceVision401kEquity

Key Requirements

•AI/ML background and the ability to credibly discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders.
•4+ years of professional Solution Architecture/Solutions Engineering experience, including 1+ year in a leadership or mentorship capacity.
•Strong customer-facing communication skills, including the ability to run structured discovery and clarify ambiguous requirements.
•Technical depth to scope solutions, without needing to write production code.
•Ability to script and prototype as needed, including comfort “vibe coding” to move quickly in technical workflows.

Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentorshipCustomer-facingProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:VllmSglangTRT-LMMGPUH100B200Docker

Company Brief

Baseten

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

Glassdoor: 5.0

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor