Applied AI Inference Engineer

📋 Description

• • As an Applied AI Inference Engineer at Baseten, you will partner directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten’s platform, translating ambiguous business goals into reliable, observable services with clear quality, latency, and cost outcomes.
• • You will develop and maintain software systems using general-purpose programming languages (with preference for Python), drive customer impact by designing and deploying end-to-end solutions, optimize AI/ML projects, and own products and customer projects from problem framing to production deployment and monitoring.
• • Baseten powers mission-critical inference for leading AI companies like Cursor, Notion, and OpenEvidence, uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling to enable cutting-edge models in production, backed by a $300M Series E from top-tier investors.
• • You will gain hands-on experience across product, software development, performance engineering, and customer-facing implementations, functioning as an engineer, project manager, and product manager while working with frontier AI companies and contributing to a rapidly growing platform shaping the future of AI deployment.