Baseten
AI Engineer
$220K–$260K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building and shipping software applications.
About the job
Build customer-facing AI features for model training and post-training, and internal AI automation, taking agentic products from prototype through general availability.
What you'll do
- Build agentic product experiences and design the harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make them reliable.
- Create internal AI tooling and automation, and turn research workflows into customer-facing features with research engineers.
- Define and instrument evaluations, implement features across the stack, and resolve bugs and customer issues.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping software applications.
- Demonstrated experience building AI- or LLM-powered products, agents, or agentic workflows used by real users.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to understand underlying systems, models, and harnesses.
- Proficiency in Python and fluency in at least one other language.
Nice to have
- Experience as a founding engineer or early startup employee.
- Experience with evals, agent observability, non-deterministic system tooling, agent frameworks, model development methods, or frontend development.
Pay
$220K – $260K USD base salary
Tools
Python, LangChain, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, MCP, LoRA
AI focus
Build and ship agentic customer product features and internal AI automation; create reliable harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails; develop and instrument evaluations; translate internal research workflows into customer-facing tools.
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