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Baseten

Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform

Baseten is hiring a Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $165k-$330k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Baseten.

Level's read on this job

  • Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • Pay on this posting starts in line with the typical software engineer posting on Level.
  • This is listed as a remote role.
  • The posting mentions Cursor, Clay and AI research among its tools and skills.
  • Baseten has 106 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

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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, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

The largest, most demanding enterprises are starting to run on Baseten, and they arrive with a range of security, compliance, and procurement requirements. As an Engineer on Baseten's enterprise engineering team, you'll build the capabilities that enable large organizations like Writer, HubSpot, and Notion to succeed on Baseten. Enterprise engineering authors the core building blocks, APIs, and user experiences powering the Baseten platform: identity and access management, billing, regional isolation, and self-hosted and single-tenant deployment options.

This is deep product and systems work across the full stack, from designing authentication and authorization systems using standards like OAuth and OIDC to shipping the admin experiences enterprise IT teams use to manage their organization.

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

Recent and upcoming work on the team:

  • Fine-grained authorization for users, service accounts, and agentic workloads

  • SSO and SCIM support, allowing customers to centralize and automate access to Baseten

  • Expanding the billing platform to support evolving pricing models, advanced data exports, and controls to manage spend

  • In-product management and enforcement of customer compliance requirements like data residency and HIPAA

  • Securing network paths in and out of a customer's models with private connectivity and ingress and egress restrictions

  • Allowing customers to run Baseten inside their own VPC, on-prem, or a dedicated single-tenant environment

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead complex, ambiguous engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.

  • Make thoughtful architectural decisions, balancing near-term customer needs with long-term simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.

  • Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate user feedback and requests into product requirements and durable technical solutions.

  • Establish strong engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.

  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping teammates grow while raising the quality of design and execution across the team.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Experience building enterprise software, including work on one or more of: identity and access management, billing systems, multi-tenant isolation controls, private connectivity, or compliance program initiatives.

  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, develop and operate systems running at scale, and collaborate with customers to understand their needs.

  • Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

  • Preferred: Experience building AI or data-intensive infrastructure products.

BENEFITS

  • Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity

  • (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents

  • Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)

  • Paid parental leave

  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot

  • (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)

  • Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).

How we rate this

Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform at Baseten rates 66 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

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Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
  2. Walk me through how you've used Cursor in your day-to-day work.
  3. What are the limits of Clay that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
  4. Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
  5. If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: AI Research, Cursor, and Clay. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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