Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)
Own how a customer’s models are served and improved on Baseten, from inference through post-training.
- San Francisco or New York, hybrid
- Full time
- Post-training
- $200K to $400K, plus equity
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“This is a builder’s job across more than one account. You’d be the person accountable for how their workloads run.”
Who it suits
A good fit
- Like taking a vague model problem through to production
- Have shipped code in a large production system
- Want to debug quality and performance rather than only the serving path
Think twice
- Want a single codebase and no customer accounts
- Haven’t shipped production software
- Don’t want to be the first responder when a workload fails
What you’d do
- Own how an account’s workloads are designed, run, and scaled, across inference and post-training.
- Frame the problem, define success, build the proof of concept, and carry it to production.
- Design the evaluations that show where quality or performance falls short, then close the gap.
- Ship fixes into Baseten’s own codebase when the account needs them.
What they ask for
- They ask for a minimum of 1 to 2 years shipping and maintaining code in large production systems.
- You’ve debugged production issues through logs, metrics, and traces in unfamiliar systems.
- You can own an ambiguous technical problem and decide when to pull in the team that owns the system.
- You can keep more than one account moving at once.
How it works
- The job is hybrid in San Francisco or New York. You’d join an on-call rotation and answer customers outside working hours.
What to know about this job
Open at least 15 weeks. Half of San Francisco FDE jobs have closed by week 12.
- Week 12Half of San Francisco FDE jobs have closed
- Week 15This job has been open this long
In November 2026, Baseten had 4 open jobs in San Francisco in this work: this training role, the forward deployed engineer role, an AI inference engineer job, and a technical program manager job.
The builder, the most common kind of FDE in San Francisco
- 56%The builder (this job). This kind ships production code into the customer’s systems, including integrations, data pipelines, and agents.
- 40%The deployment lead. Scopes the customer’s problem, runs the rollout and makes sure the product delivers what was promised.
Shares of open FDE jobs in San Francisco.
Most new San Francisco forward deployed engineers weren’t forward deployed engineers before
- 90% of people who became forward deployed engineers in San Francisco weren’t forward deployed engineers in their last job.
- 46% of them came from a startup or scale-up.
Baseten lists $200K to $400K, plus equity for this job
The San Francisco forward deployed engineer guide shows what forward deployed engineers in San Francisco expect to earn.
What San Francisco forward deployed engineers earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “How many accounts would I hold at once?”
- “How much of the work is post-training, and how much is inference?”
Jack’s take on Baseten
- Revenue tripled to a reported $600M a year in the first three months of 2026
- Valuation rose from $825M to $13B in 16 months
- The team grew from 180 to nearly 400 people in five months
- Its cofounders run it, with leaders hired from Sequoia, Databricks and Figma
- A fast-moving, hybrid place to work
- Based in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Montreal and London
- Founded 2019
- 101 open jobs
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Jack & Jill isn’t Baseten’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Baseten’s public careers page, where you can apply. We check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our San Francisco forward deployed engineer guide and the company facts from Baseten’s page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.