Global Capacity Manager

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

100% medical/dental/vision coverage

Flexible PTO incl. Winter Break

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Global Capacity Lead to architect, secure, and optimize our global GPU fleet that powers customers' AI workloads. You will own end-to-end capacity management, from securing multi-million dollar clusters to building automation ensuring 99.9% uptime across multi-cloud environments.

This is a high-stakes, hands-on engineering role combining Kubernetes expertise with strategic leadership. You will coordinate with SRE, Infra, and frontend teams, drive scalable capacity solutions,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional work experience in a high-growth environment, preferably at a hyperscaler or GPU provider.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including taints, cordons, node draining, and custom operators.
• Demonstrated production experience with Go or Python and strong financial literacy for capacity modeling.
• High tenacity and collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead Specialized Pods: manage full lifecycle of GPU pods (e.g., H100, B200) and assets.
• Advanced Orchestration: perform complex migrations and regional deployment constraints.
• Build for Scalability: design next-gen capacity management to handle 10x GPU volume.
• Financial Modeling: develop ROI models for GPU spend to sustain profitability.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: partner with SRE, Infra, and FDE teams on operations.
• Incident Response: lead capacity-crunch response and rapid workload re-coordination.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go or Python

Financial modeling

Collaborative mindset

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/Engineering

Job description

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.

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 Global Capacity Lead at Baseten, you will lead the "engine room" of the company, architecting, securing, and optimizing the global GPU fleet that powers our customers' AI workloads. You’ll own the end-to-end journey of capacity management, from securing multi-million dollar GPU clusters to building the automation that ensures 99.9% uptime across multi-cloud environments.

This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial engineers who want to bridge the gap between high-finance asset management and deep infrastructure engineering. You will act as the fleet orchestrator for the world's most advanced chips, ensuring Baseten never experiences a capacity outage while maintaining elite unit economics.

To be clear, this is a high-stakes engineering role. You will be hands-on with Kubernetes orchestration while also leading specialized pods focused on the next generation of hardware, like NVIDIA’s Blackwell (B200) architecture.

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

• The B200 Frontier: Architecting the infrastructure readiness and deployment strategy for Baseten's first Blackwell GPU clusters. Global Workload Orchestration: Building "Multi-cloud Capacity Management" systems to move customer workloads seamlessly across regions to optimize cost and latency.
• Precision GPU Triage: Developing automated Go-based operators to identify, cordon, and repair unhealthy H100 nodes in under an hour.

The Supply Chain of Intelligence: Partnering with leadership to secure and reserve dedicated capacity for Baseten’s largest enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Specialized Pods: Act as the lead for specific GPU pods (e.g., H100 or B200), managing the full lifecycle of acquisition, air traffic control, and maintenance for those assets.
• Advanced Orchestration: Execute complex workload migrations and "sticky" deployment drains, ensuring deployment scheduling rules meet strict regional and compliance requirements.
• Build for Scalability: Design and implement the "next version" of Baseten’s capacity management system to handle a 10x increase in GPU volume. Financial Modeling: Leverage your understanding of unit economics to build ROI models for GPU spend, ensuring Baseten scales profitably.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with SRE, Infra, and FDE teams to take discrete operational tasks off their plate and verify "last mile" follow-through on infrastructure changes.
• Incident Response: Lead capacity-crunch response by rapidly untainting and re- coordinating workloads during high-pressure outages.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional work experience in a high-growth environment, preferably at a hyperscaler (GCP, AWS, Azure) or a specialized GPU provider
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including hands‑on experience with taints, cordons, node draining, and custom operators
• Demonstrated experience with Go or Python in a production-level environment Strong financial literacy and the ability to model complex trade-offs between capacity reliability and cost
• High tenacity and collaborative mindset

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 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
• Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

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).

Compensation Range: $170K - $230K