Software Engineer - Training Infrastructure

Baseten

• $135K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on ML infrastructure or distributed systems
  • Hands-on expertise in distributed training frameworks (e.g., FSDP, DDP, ZeRO) and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Transformers)
  • Strong understanding of GPU/accelerator performance optimization techniques
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale systems in production, preferably cloud-native
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills with cross-domain collaboration experience

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain distributed training infrastructure for large-scale foundation models
  • Implement scalable pipelines for fine-tuning across GPU/accelerator clusters
  • Optimize training performance using techniques like FSDP, DDP, and mixed precision training
  • Contribute to developer-friendly frameworks and tooling for efficient training workflows
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure systems meet real-world requirements
  • Research and implement emerging techniques in training efficiency and model adaptation
  • Participate in code reviews and system design discussions to uphold high engineering standards

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing startup in a cutting-edge engineering field
  • Inclusive and supportive work culture fostering learning and growth
  • Exposure to various ML startups, providing unique learning and networking opportunities
Full Job Description
THE ROLE

As a Software Engineer at on the Training Infrastructure team, you'll architect and lead development of our training platform, supporting top tier research engineers and model developers. You'll make key technical decisions for the infrastructure enabling developers to deploy, scale, and monitor their workloads with high performance and reliability. You'll own scheduling, storage, networking, reliability, and observability of technical systems in the training stack

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

Take a look at what we've built so far:
  • Overview of the product so far
  • Training docs overview
  • Story of the Training product
  • Research we've done

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design and architect scalable infrastructure systems for our ML training platform (e.g. scheduling, storage, and networking)
  • Partner closely with developers and research engineers to translate complex training requirements into technical solutions
  • Design and architect a global training scheduler
  • Design and architect reinforcement learning systems and continuous learning pipelines
  • Drive long-term improvements to improve reliability of systems and velocity of development
  • Partner closely with SRE and Capacity teams to unlock state of the art training infrastructure
  • Make critical architectural decisions balancing performance with system reliability
  • Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers on infrastructure best practices
  • Contribute to long-term technical strategy and infrastructure roadmap

REQUIREMENTS
  • Bachelor's degree or high in Computer Science or related field
  • Proficiency in Go, with
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments
  • Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and performance tuning
  • Proven experience designing observability systems
  • Experience with ML/AI workloads and MLOps platforms

NICE TO HAVE
  • Experience with distributed storage systems
  • Python experience a plus
  • Extensive experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and neo-cloud providers (Crusoe, DigitalOcean, Nebius)
  • Experience with workload orchestration platforms like Temporal or Airflow
  • Familiarity or experience with the open source training stack and frameworks (NCCL, PyTorch, Megatron, NemoRL, VeRL, Axolotl, HF Trainer) and distributed training techniques (FSDP, DeepSpeed).
  • Experience developing AI products, tooling, or agents


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.

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