Applied AI Inference (Forward Deployed Engineer)

Join Baseten as a Forward Deployed Engineer, where you'll partner directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications. This role combines hands-on coding and software development with aspects of product management, technical customer success, and pre-sales solution engineering. You'll work with customers' engineering teams at every stage of the customer journey, optimize and enhance AI/ML projects, and own products and customer projects end-to-end. Enjoy a remote-first work environment, unlimited PTO, full healthcare coverage, paid parental leave, and a learning and development budget.

• Partner directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten’s platform.
• Drive customer impact by designing, implementing, and deploying Baseten solutions end-to-end, working with customers’ engineering teams at every stage of the customer journey.
• Own products and customer projects end-to-end, functioning as both an engineer, project manager, and product manager, with a focus on user empathy, project specification, and end-to-end execution.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• Strong communication skills, particularly on complex technical topics
• Experience in building or optimizing AI/ML projects is highly valued
• Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and the lifecycle of ML model development and deployment
• Demonstrated experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages in a production-level environment, with a strong preference for Python
• This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial engineers who want a front-row view into how modern companies adopt AI at scale and who enjoy working across product, software development, performance engineering, and customer-facing implementations
• 2+ years of professional work experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment