Solution Architect
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About the Role
Baseten seeks a Solution Architect to partner with Sales and customers, translating business needs into technical solutions. You will lead demos, technical scoping, and drive proofs of value.
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Responsibilities
- Partner with Sales on customer discovery calls
- Lead demos and technical scoping to align on success criteria, architecture, and deployment approach
- Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments, including handling standard deployment patterns across many modalities
- Become a power user of different runtimes such as vllm, sglang, and TRT LMM
- Drive POC and project execution, scoping POCs and keeping stakeholders aligned
- Act as the 'ringleader' or project manager for POCs
- Pull in Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) support when deeper technical work is needed
Requirements
- AI/ML background and the ability to credibly discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders
- Strong customer facing communication skills, including the ability to run structured discovery and clarify ambiguous requirements
- Technical depth to scope solutions, without needing to write production code
- Ability to script and prototype as needed, including comfort 'vibe coding' to move quickly in technical workflows
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THE ROLE
- As a Solution Architect at Baseten you will partner closely with Sales and customers to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Run technical discovery, and guide repeatable deployments and proofs of value for customers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partner with Sales on customer discovery calls.
- Lead demos and technical scoping to align on success criteria, architecture, and deployment approach.
- Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments, including handling standard deployment patterns across many modalities.
- Become a power user of different runtimes such as vllm, sglang, and TRT LMM.
- Drive POC and project execution, scoping POCs and keeping stakeholders aligned.
- Act as the 'ringleader' or project manager for POCs.
- Pull in Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) support when deeper or more complex technical work is needed.
REQUIREMENTS
- AI/ML background and the ability to credibly discuss AI/ML topics with technical stakeholders.
- Strong customer facing communication skills.
- Technical depth to scope solutions, without needing to write production code.
- Ability to script and prototype as needed, including comfort 'vibe coding'.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience running or supporting benchmarks for ML inference deployments.
- Familiarity with infrastructure tradeoffs relevant to inference performance and cost.
- Experience serving as a cross functional technical lead for customer POCs.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family building stipend through Carrot.
- Company facilitated 401(k).
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups.
Compensation Range
- CAD 165K CAD 330K
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