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AI Engineer

Baseten· EPD
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$220k - $260kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

AI Engineer role focusing on building agentic product features and internal tooling to accelerate AI workflows, working with research engineers to turn internal research into customer-facing capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship agentic product experiences, including chat-style and assistant-like interfaces, from prototype to GA.
  • Design the harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make AI systems reliable in production.
  • Build internal automation and AI tooling that measurably increases the velocity of engineering, research, and go-to-market teams.
  • Partner with research engineers to scope product opportunities out of internal research workflows and turn them into customer-facing features.
  • Define and instrument evals so you know whether a change actually improved output quality.
  • Work throughout the stack (API layer, backend, agent orchestration, frontend) to implement features end to end.
  • Use Baseten's own training and inference products yourself to develop intuition around customer workflows.
  • Identify where AI can replace manual process across the company and build the thing rather than write the proposal.
  • Fix bugs and resolve customer issues with urgency.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building and shipping software applications.
  • Demonstrated experience building AI or LLM-powered products, agents, or agentic workflows that real users depend on.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to clear a real technical bar, not just prompt well.
  • Ability to build accurate mental models of how systems work under the hood, including the models and harnesses you're building on.
  • Proficiency in Python, with fluency in at least one other language.
  • Comfort working autonomously in a fast-moving environment with limited structure.
  • Ability to move between customer-facing product work and internal tooling and automation.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical depth and business needs.

Skills

Required:AI product developmentPythonOther programming languageSystem designAutonomy in fast-moving environments

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 (offices closed 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.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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