Software Engineer - Training Infrastructure
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Baseten. San Francisco · full-time · $165,000–$330,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Shape training infrastructure for scheduling, storage and networking, then turn researchers’ workload needs into technical designs
- Build a global scheduler and systems for reinforcement learning and ongoing model training
- Improve reliability and development speed across the training stack while coordinating with SRE and Capacity teams
- Make architecture choices that weigh system speed against reliability, and guide junior engineers on infrastructure practices
- Set the longer-term direction for the infrastructure and its technical roadmap
What you bring
- At least five years of software engineering experience and a bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related area
- Strong Go skills and deep experience running Kubernetes in production
- Advanced knowledge of distributed systems and performance tuning, plus a track record designing observability systems
- Experience with machine-learning workloads and MLOps platforms
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits an engineer ready to make architecture decisions for training infrastructure and mentor junior colleagues. It is based in San Francisco and is hybrid.
From the employer
ABOUT BASETEN
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.
THE ROLE
As a Software Engineer on the Training Infrastructure team, you'll architect and lead development of our training platform, supporting top tier research engineers and model developers. You'll make key technical decisions for the infrastructure enabling developers to deploy, scale, and monitor their workloads with high performance and reliability. You’ll own scheduling, storage, networking, reliability, and observability of technical systems in the training stack
EXAMPLE INITIATIVES
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RESPONSIBILITIES
Design and architect scalable infrastructure systems for our ML training platform (e.g. scheduling, storage, and networking)
Partner closely with developers and research engineers to translate complex training requirements into technical solutions
Design and architect a global training scheduler
Design and architect reinforcement learning systems and continuous learning pipelines
Drive long-term improvements to increase reliability of systems and velocity of development
Partner closely with SRE and Capacity teams to unlock state of the art training infrastructure
Make critical architectural decisions balancing performance with system reliability
Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers on infrastructure best practices
Contribute to long-term technical strategy and infrastructure roadmap
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
5+ years of experience
Proficiency in Go, with
Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments
Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and performance tuning
Proven experience designing observability systems
Experience with ML/AI workloads and MLOps platforms
NICE TO HAVE
Experience with distributed storage systems
Python experience a plus
Extensive experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and neo-cloud providers (Crusoe, DigitalOcean, Nebius)
Experience with workload orchestration platforms like Temporal or Airflow
Familiarity or experience with the open source training stack and frameworks (NCCL, PyTorch, Megatron, NemoRL, VeRL, Axolotl, HF Trainer) and distributed training techniques (FSDP, DeepSpeed).
Experience developing AI products, tooling, or agents
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
(U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
(U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.
Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).
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