Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Production Scale

The Consensus; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity and compensation

100% health, dental, vision insurance

Flexible PTO including Winter Break

Paid parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

401(k) plan

Exposure to ML startups

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, architect and deploy high-scale AI applications on Baseten's platform. You will own customer journeys from exploration to production, turning ambiguous goals into reliable, observable services with clear quality, latency, and cost outcomes.

This role suits entrepreneurial engineers who work across product, software, performance engineering, and customer-facing implementations, with hands-on coding and product management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 2+ years of professional work experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• 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.
• Strong communication skills, particularly on complex technical topics.
• Experience in building or optimizing AI/ML projects is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software systems and product features in production-level environments, with a preference for Python.
• Drive customer impact by designing, implementing, and deploying Baseten solutions end-to-end (problem framing -> evaluation -> production deployment -> monitoring).
• Deliver with velocity: turn vague objectives into clear specs and PoCs.
• Optimize and enhance AI/ML projects, contributing to the tech stack and PRDs.
• Own products and customer projects end-to-end as engineer, PM, and product lead.

Skills

Python

ML deployment

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D. in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Baseten is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, architect and deploy high-scale AI applications on Baseten's platform. You will own customer journeys from exploration to production, turning ambiguous goals into reliable, observable services with clear quality, latency, and cost outcomes.

This role suits entrepreneurial engineers who work across product, software, performance engineering, and customer-facing implementations, with hands-on coding and product management