Software Engineer - Inference Performance is open at Baseten in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $180K - $360K. Posted on Oct 5, 2026, and still on Baseten’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We're looking for inference performance engineers who want to make the world's most demanding AI workloads run faster and more efficiently. You'll work across the stack, from the inference engine and runtime through scheduling, serving, and routing. Along the way you'll apply techniques like prefill/decode disaggregation, speculative decoding, and KV-cache management. You'll reason from first principles about where…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Baseten’s careers page.
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