Partner Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid

Salary: $265,000–$330,000 per year, plus equity

Company

Baseten provides an inference platform and developer tooling that helps AI companies run cutting-edge models in production.

What you will do

• Lead strategic partner integrations from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, launch, and production operation.
• Design APIs, define system boundaries, resolve cross-company dependencies, and make architectural decisions with partner engineering teams.
• Write substantial production code and own the systems you build.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities across identity, provisioning, inference, model serving, metering, and billing.
• Coordinate technical delivery across Baseten and partner teams, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.
• Improve integration reliability through API contracts, testing, observability, safe rollouts, and failure handling.

Requirements

• Experience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Experience leading ambiguous cross-team engineering projects while contributing substantial production code.
• Strong judgment in API design, service boundaries, failure handling, and measurable service-level objectives.
• Experience translating customer, partner, or engineering requests into defined technical scope and documented decisions.
• Comfort working across application code and cloud infrastructure, including debugging across service boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating products with cloud providers, developer platforms, or infrastructure companies.
• Experience with usage metering, marketplace infrastructure, or commerce systems involving multiple parties.
• Production experience with model serving or other AI infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity.
• U.S. employees and dependents receive 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Flexible paid time off and a company-wide winter break.
• Paid parental leave and a fertility and family-building stipend.
• U.S. employees have access to a company-facilitated 401(k).
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups and related learning opportunities.