Baseten
Solutions Architect
$165K–$330K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Feb 25, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Partners with Sales and customers to discover needs, design technical solutions, and guide AI inference deployments and proofs of concept.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery, demos, technical scoping, and alignment on success criteria and deployment approaches.
- Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments across model modalities, runtimes, and infrastructure configurations.
- Manage POC execution, timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder coordination, involving Forward Deployed Engineering when needed.
What they ask for
- AI/ML background and ability to discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders.
- Strong customer-facing communication skills, including structured discovery and clarifying ambiguous requirements.
- Technical depth to scope solutions without writing production code.
- Ability to script and prototype, including comfort “vibe coding.”
Nice to have
- Experience running or supporting benchmarks for ML inference deployments.
- Familiarity with inference infrastructure tradeoffs, or experience leading customer POCs across Sales and Engineering.
Pay
$165K – $330K USD base salary
Tools
vLLM, SGLang, TRT-LLM, H100s, B200s
AI focus
Supports customers in deploying and optimizing AI/ML inference, including LLMs, embeddings, image and video generation, and Voice AI.
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