Software Engineer - Training Infrastructure
Baseten · San Francisco
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 As a Software Engineer at on the Training Infrastructure team, you'll architect and lead development of our training platform, supporting top tier research engineers and model developers. You'll make key technical decisions for the infrastructure enabling developers to deploy, scale, and monitor their workloads with high performance and reliability. You’ll own scheduling, storage, networking, reliability, and observability of technical systems in the training stack EXAMPLE INITIATIVES Take a look at what we’ve built so far: - Overview of the product so far https://www.baseten.co/blog/baseten-training-is-ga/#training-is-now-ga - Training docs overview https://docs.baseten.co/training/overview - Story of the Training product https://www.baseten.co/blog/a-q-a-from-inference-to-training-the-inside-story-of-baseten-s-newest-product/ - Research we've done https://www.baseten.co/resources/research/ RESPONSIBILITIES - Design and architect scalable infrastructure systems for our ML training platform (e.g. scheduling, storage, and networking) - Partner closely with developers and research engineers to translate complex training requirements into technical solutions - Design and architect a global training scheduler - Design and architect reinforcement learning systems and continuous learning pipelines - Drive long-term improvements t