# Software Engineer - Inference Performance at Baseten

- Company: Baseten
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Location: San Francisco · Remote · Toronto · New York · Montreal · Seattle
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $180K–360K
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Skills: AI, Python
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/baseten/7cb19a05-8e5b-44cf-b3e7-19949e2eff04

## Description

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 ship AI products.



THE ROLE

We're looking for inference performance engineers who want to make the world's most demanding AI workloads run faster and more efficiently. You'll work across the stack, from the inference engine and runtime through scheduling, serving, and routing. Along the way you'll apply techniques like prefill/decode disaggregation, speculative decoding, and KV-cache management. You'll reason from first principles about where time and memory go, find what's holding performance back, and close the gap. Your work directly impacts how fast our customers' models run and how efficiently we serve them. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and is eager to make significant contributions to the exciting field of LLM inference.

 

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

You'll get to work on these types of projects as an Inference Performance engineer:

 - Agentic Kernels in Production https://www.baseten.co/blog/agentic-kernels-in-production/

 - How we built 

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