{"id":1513485,"url":"https://alion.io/job/baseten-software-engineer-partner-platform","title":"Software Engineer - Partner Platform","company":{"id":4399,"name":"Baseten","domain":"baseten.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/baseten","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":74,"open_postings":19,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.842,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":92,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":265000,"max":330000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":330000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Baseten","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Notion","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T23:48:23Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T16:46:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"ABOUT BASETEN\nBaseten 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.\nTHE ROLE\nThe AI ecosystem is being built by many companies at once: model labs creating increasingly capable models, hyperscalers providing infrastructure and distribution, developers building new AI products, and a growing ecosystem of tools that agents can use.\nBaseten sits at the center of that ecosystem as the inference platform developers use to run AI in production. Partner Engineering is how we connect those worlds.\nAs one of the first engineers focused on Partner Engineering at Baseten, you'll build the technical foundation behind some of our most strategic relationships. You'll work directly with engineers at leading model labs, hyperscalers, developer platforms, and AI infrastructure companies to turn partnerships into products developers can actually use.\nYou don't need a previous partner engineering title. We want an engineer who enjoys working directly with another company's technical team and carrying the resulting product decisions into production at Baseten.\nWHAT YOU'LL BUILD\nBring new capabilities into Baseten. Integrate a search or developer-tools provider into Baseten so an agent can call the service during inference, with consistent authentication, execution, failure handling, observability, and usage reporting.\n\nTake Baseten into new distribution channels. Integrate Baseten with a hyperscaler, cloud marketplace, or developer platform so customers can discover models, provision access, and run inference through a partner's product while Baseten handles the underlying serving infrastructure.\n\nLaunch models with leading model labs. Build the infrastructure that lets developers discover and run a model lab's newest models on Baseten, including access controls, usage attribution, metering, and the systems required to support commercial agreements such as revenue sharing.\n\nCreate the partner platform itself. Identify the primitives common across these integrations and turn them into reusable platform capabilities so we can launch increasingly sophisticated partnerships without reinventing the stack every time.\n\nWHAT YOU'LL OWN\nLead strategic partner integrations from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, launch, and production operation.\n\nWork directly with partner engineering teams to design APIs, define system boundaries, resolve cross-company dependencies, and make architectural decisions.\n\nWrite substantial production code and own the systems you build.\n\nBuild reusable partner-platform primitives across identity, provisioning, inference, model serving, metering, billing, and other Baseten platform capabilities.\n\nOwn technical delivery across Baseten and partner teams, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and architectural tradeoffs.\n\nWork closely with Partnerships and Product to understand where the ecosystem is going and translate emerging opportunities into platform investments.\n\nRaise the bar for integration reliability through strong API contracts, testing, observability, safe rollouts, and thoughtful failure handling.\n\nHelp define what Partner Engineering becomes at Baseten as both the team and our ecosystem grow.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\nExperience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production. You can explain the architectural choices you made and how they meet customers' needs at scale.\n\nA record of leading ambiguous engineering projects across teams while contributing substantial production code yourself.\n\nSound judgment about API design, service boundaries, and failure handling. You've built systems that uphold API contracts and meet measurable service-level objectives that customers and partners depend on.\n\nExperience turning requests from customers, partners, or other engineering teams into a defined technical scope. You can explain a constraint, propose an alternative, and document the decision.\n\nComfort working across application code and cloud infrastructure, including debugging behavior that crosses service boundaries.\n\nNICE TO HAVE\nProduct integrations with cloud providers, developer platforms, or other infrastructure companies.\n\nUsage metering, marketplace infrastructure, or commerce systems that support relationships among multiple parties.\n\nModel serving or other artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure used in production.\n\nBENEFITS\nCompetitive compensation, including meaningful equity\n\n(U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents\n\nFlexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)\n\nPaid parental leave\n\nFertility and family-building stipend through Carrot\n\n(U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)\n\nExposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.\n\nApply 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.\nAt 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.\nWe 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).","description_format":"text","description_chars":6151,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Parental leave","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["MLOps","AI Compute & Inference"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T08:46:49Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":92,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":330000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/baseten-software-engineer-partner-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/baseten-software-engineer-partner-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T02:32:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3419,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1581,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}