Baseten
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Baseten. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $260K–$380K.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Baseten
Hiring the FDE manager and the ICs at once — join the org on day zero, or run it.
- FDE type
- Solutions engineering
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Top of market
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want inference-infra deployment work
- People who want to shape a team from its first hires
- Those who weight comp and equity in a fast-growing infra startup
What they do
Baseten runs a model-serving and inference platform — customers deploy and scale ML/LLM models on its infrastructure. It sits in the same inference-infra layer as Modal and Replicate, selling performance and reliability.
What “forward deployed” means here
The FDE work is embedded solutions engineering: tuning customer model deployments for latency, cost, and reliability on Baseten's stack. This posting is for the Engineering Manager, and Baseten is hiring the ICs in parallel — so you either help build the org or run it from the start.
Comp & leveling
The EM band is $260K–$380K plus equity — top-of-market for the infra tier, reflecting that this is a leadership seat. Equity in a fast-growing, well-funded infra company is the upside; San Francisco on-site is the constraint.
Growth signals
Baseten has grown quickly on the back of the inference boom and raised strong rounds. Standing up an FDE function with a manager and ICs simultaneously signals real customer pull and a deliberate bet on white-glove deployment.
Analysis updated 2026-09-11
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