Applied AI Inference Engineer

About the role

Join Baseten as an Applied AI Inference Engineer, where you'll partner 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 remotely, enjoy unlimited PTO, full healthcare coverage, and a learning and development budget. Key missions: 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. Profile: - Experience in building or optimizing AI/ML projects is highly valued - Strong communication skills, particularly on complex technical topics - Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field - Demonstrated experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages in a production-level environment, with a strong preference for Python - Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and the lifecycle of ML model development and deployment - 1+ years of professional work experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment