Solution Architect

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Responsibilities

• ▹Partner with Sales on customer discovery calls
• ▹Lead demos and technical scoping to align on success criteria, architecture, and deployment approach
• ▹Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments across modalities — LLMs, embeddings, image and video generation, VoiceAI
• ▹Advise on tradeoffs like H100s vs B200s and latency-optimized vs throughput-optimized setups
• ▹Drive consistent playbook-style deployments for common models and use cases
• ▹Scope and drive POCs and project execution, keeping stakeholders aligned on timeline and deliverables

Requirements

• ▹AI/ML background with the ability to credibly discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders
• ▹Strong customer-facing communication skills, including structured discovery and clarifying ambiguous requirements
• ▹Technical depth to scope solutions without needing to write production code
• ▹Ability to script and prototype as needed, including comfort 'vibe coding'

Nice to have

• ▹Experience running or supporting benchmarks for ML inference deployments
• ▹Familiarity with infrastructure tradeoffs relevant to inference performance and cost
• ▹Experience serving as a cross-functional technical lead for customer POCs

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive compensation including meaningful equity
• ▹100% coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• ▹Flexible PTO including a company-wide winter break (closed between Christmas Eve and 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, offering great learning and networking opportunities

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for some of the world's most dynamic AI companies, including Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By combining applied AI research, flexible infrastructure and seamless developer tooling, they help companies bring cutting-edge models into production. The company is growing fast and recently closed a $1.5B Series F round led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners and Spark Capital.