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Hiring now
3
open roles
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 20 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Zero () friction local AI for Mac
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
5 public repositories · +1%
Launched on Hacker News
2 points
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Overview

Base Compute is an AI inference lab. We build the runtimes and infrastructure that make powerful AI run on-device. Fast, private, and at near-zero marginal cost.

News

News basecmpt 1 month ago
State of Local AI Report Base Compute
What runs locally in 2026: capabilities mapped to model classes, hardware tiers with realistic tokens/sec, memory math and speed thresholds for on-device AI.
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News basecmpt 2 months ago
Local Private AI that runs on your Mac
Local is a macOS app that runs AI on your own machine. It tunes itself to your chip with BaseRT, so chat, coding and meeting notes run faster on the same hardware, without your work leaving the device.
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News basecmpt 3 months ago
Get BaseRT Base Compute
BaseRT is the fastest LLM runtime on Apple Silicon. Install it with one command and run local models on your own device.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Base Compute over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
15
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
66/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Rust
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA
ROCm
Triton
Cloud & platforms
CUDA Toolkit
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Base Compute tech stack 15 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added KV Cache to stack Sep 2026
Added Speculative Decoding to stack Sep 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack Sep 2026
Added LLMOps to stack Aug 2026
Added ROCm to stack Aug 2026
Added Edge AI to stack Aug 2026
Added Triton to stack Aug 2026
Added CUDA to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Melbourne
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Melbourne Australia
2 open roles 100% engineering
hires for AI/ML
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Berlin Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for AI/ML
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $71k – $164k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • PhD • Berlin
CUDA Toolkit
Reinforcement Learning
Quantization
LLM
CUDA
Triton
ROCm
Edge AI
Speculative Decoding
Model Distillation
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In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Melbourne
Rust
C++
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
LLM
CUDA
Triton
LLMOps
ROCm
Edge AI
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
Machine Learning
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In office • Full-Time • PhD • Melbourne
CUDA Toolkit
Reinforcement Learning
Quantization
LLM
CUDA
Triton
ROCm
Edge AI
Speculative Decoding
Model Distillation
Apply