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Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)

Baseten Indexed employerSan Francisco · New York
Source-hosted applyChecked 1h ago$200K–$400K/yrFull-Time
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Workplace

hybrid

Employment

Full-Time

Published

Aug 19, 2026

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The role

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 https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-series-f/, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with the largest and fastest-growing AI companies in the world, owning their technical outcomes on Baseten and taking on the hardest problems in serving and improving models at scale. The work spans the model lifecycle: inference, post-training, and the systems that tighten the loop between them. - Act as each account's de facto CTO on Baseten, with final accountability for how their workloads are designed, run, and scaled. - Take customer objectives from vague to shipped: frame the problem, define the spec and success criteria, build the PoC, and carry it through to production quickly, using the right tools for the problem. - Design the evals and benchmarks that isolate where quality or performance falls short, then close the gap yourself, whether that means optimizing inference, improving the model through post-training, or reworking the eval itself. - Be the first responder to mission-critical failures including triage, owning the fix directly or route to the owning team and stay accountable until it ships. - Build internal systems so that each engagement is faster than the last. This includes tooling and automation for eval and deployment infrastructure, and the recipes and reference implementations that make the product more self-serve. - Shape the product itself, channeling what your accounts need into the roadma

Requirements

Department: EPD; Team: Training