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AI Engineer in USA

  • Baseten
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship agentic product experiences, including chat-style and assistant-like interfaces, from prototype through general availability.
  • Design reliable AI-system harnesses, execution flows, guardrails, and evaluations.
  • Build internal AI tooling and automation to increase engineering, research, and go-to-market velocity.
  • Partner with research engineers to turn internal research workflows into customer-facing features.
  • Instrument evaluations to measure changes in output quality.
  • Implement end-to-end features across the API layer, backend, agent orchestration, and frontend.
  • Use Baseten training and inference products to understand customer workflows.
  • Identify and replace manual company processes with AI-driven solutions.
  • Fix bugs and resolve customer issues with urgency.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and shipping software applications.
  • Demonstrated experience building AI- or LLM-powered products, agents, or agentic workflows used by real users.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to meet a high technical bar.
  • Ability to understand how systems, models, and harnesses work under the hood.
  • Proficiency in Python and fluency in at least one other programming language.
  • Comfort working autonomously in a fast-moving environment with limited structure.
  • Ability to move between customer-facing product work and internal tooling and automation.
  • Strong communication skills for bridging technical depth and business needs.
  • Preferred: experience as a founding engineer or early startup employee.
  • Preferred: experience building evaluations, agent observability, or tooling for non-deterministic systems.
  • Preferred: familiarity with LangChain, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and MCP.
  • Preferred: experience with supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation, LoRA, and full fine-tunes.
  • Preferred: frontend fluency.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation including meaningful equity; no base salary amount is stated.
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible paid time off and company-wide Winter Break, with offices closed from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
  • Company-facilitated 401(k).
  • Exposure to a variety of ML startups and related learning and networking opportunities.

Salary: $220k - $260k/yr

Baseten

Baseten delivers critical inference solutions for AI companies, equipping them to seamlessly deploy advanced models at scale. Our unique blend of applied AI research and flexible infrastructure allows developers to accelerate their projects and meet demanding performance needs.

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