Baseten
Engineering Manager, Inference Performance
$240K–$270K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Leads a team improving GPU inference performance, guiding technical strategy and execution while hiring, developing, and supporting engineers.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and grow inference performance engineers, including hiring, feedback, career development, and performance reviews.
- Own the runtime performance roadmap and guide profiling, optimization, and productionization of inference techniques.
- Coordinate with partner teams to ship performance improvements and measure outcomes such as latency, utilization, and cost.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience managing engineers, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance reviews.
- Experience leading or closely supporting GPU optimization teams in training, inference, or recommendation systems.
- Strong GPU workload knowledge, familiarity with ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorRT, or TensorRT-LLM, and a track record of delivering complex technical projects.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM.
- Production experience with LLM optimization, GPU kernels, rapid-growth startup teams, or hands-on performance/systems engineering.
Pay
$240K – $270K (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, CUDA, Triton, CUTLASS
AI focus
Optimizes and productionizes AI inference on GPUs, including quantization, speculative decoding, KV-cache management, batching, kernels, scheduling, and support for new model architectures.
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