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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$180K – $220K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help us build the next generation of products which will go beyond just ID and enable our members to leverage the power of a networked digital identity. As a Software Engineer at CLEAR, you will participate in the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of applications to build and enhance our platform- one that interconnects dozens of attributes and qualifications while keeping member privacy and security at the core. A brief highlight of our tech stack: Java / Kafka / Postgres AWS cloud What you'll do: Advance our capabilities across a wide array of industries and domains and gain hands-on experience with privacy, security, data modeling and architecture Develop and deliver code across the full stack, driving engineering excellence by defining to best practices in testing, documentation and observability Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, to innovate, and to solve complex problems Have a strong sense of ownership, responsible for architectural decision-making and striving for continuous improvement in technology and processes at CLEAR What you’re great at: 3+ years of backend software development experience in Java Working with cloud-based application development, and being fluent in at least a few of: Cloud service providers like AWS Containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes Collaboration, integration, and deployment tools like Github, Argo, and Jenkins Arti

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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$180K – $220K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We’re looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to help us build the next generation of products which will go beyond just ID and enable our members to leverage the power of a networked digital identity. As a Machine Learning Engineer at CLEAR, you will participate in the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of applications to build and enhance our platform - one that interconnects dozens of attributes and qualifications while keeping member privacy and security at the core. A brief highlight of our tech stack: Python / Postgres / Snowflake / dbt AWS SageMaker and MLflow What you'll do: Own and drive the foundational work of a ML system at CLEAR Design, build and deploy ML models for various applications, such as document and image processing, fraud detection. Develop and implement robust data pipelines at a variety of scales, including collection, pre-processing, transformation, and feature engineering Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, to innovate, and to solve complex problems Have a strong sense of ownership, responsible for architectural decision-making and striving for continuous improvement in technology and processes at CLEAR What you're great at: 3+ years of experience building, operating and scaling ML models for consumer applications, particularly those with experience building end-to-end systems Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance Expertise in best practices for feature enginee

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $299K/yr

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Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About the Role: This role will be based in San Francisco. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days. You’ll build the systems that let any knowledge worker leverage fast, scalable databases without having to become a DBA. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader, helping set the architectural direction and roadmap as we take a new product from early alpha to general availability. You’ll work directly with early customers to shape foundational technical and product decisions. Then, together, we’ll work on scaling as adoption and workloads grow. This is a backend-leaning role with work spanning the stack. You might build the systems that provision and manage a fleet of customer Postgres instances, design how user-defined schemas evolve safely, or make complex queries execute efficiently. You’ll also follow those systems into the product: improving how a table loads, how users understand a slow operation, or how an agent safely works with their data. You’ll

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role We are seeking a Growth Marketing Manager to build the web and organic growth engine for SMB advertisers at OpenAI. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to shape how businesses discover our advertising platform, understand its value, and become successful advertisers. You will own the SMB Ads web strategy and experimentation roadmap, combining customer insight, analytical rigor, and product judgment to grow qualified discovery and improve conversion. Your scope spans web experiences, organic search, generative engine optimization (GEO), and the journey from first visit through signup and activation. You will work closely with Product, Design, Ads Engineering, Content, and Data Science to turn opportunities into shipped experiences, operating with the speed and ownership of a startup. In This Role, You Will Own the SMB Ads web strategy and roadmap to grow qualified discovery, signup, and advertiser activation. Grow organic discovery through search, content, and GEO. Test new ways to help businesses find and evaluate OpenAI’s advertising offering. Analyze journeys, funnels, and cohorts to identify conversion barriers and prioritize high-impact improvements. Run experiments across landing pages, messaging, navigation, personalization, offers, and conversion flo

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📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States· Full-time
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From $100K/yr

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We’re looking for Software Engineering Interns to help build and scale the systems that power Datadog’s observability and security platform. Interns contribute directly to real-world engineering challenges across backend, frontend, infrastructure, data engineering, and developer tooling while working alongside experienced engineers and mentors. You’ll help design, build, and improve systems that process and analyze massive volumes of metrics, logs, and application data in real time. Whether you’re interested in distributed systems, Kubernetes, AI-powered products like Bits AI, or developer platform tooling, you’ll work on meaningful projects that deliver impact to customers at global scale. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Contribute to production systems that process and analyze large-scale observability and application data in real time Build and improve distributed systems across backend infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud-native services Help identify and solve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges in critical services supporting Datadog’s growing customer base Own and deliver technical projects from design through deployment with support from experienced engineers and mentors Develop technical expertise through hands-on experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure Collaborate with fellow interns, mentors, and engineers while building software that delivers impact at global scale Who You Are: Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience Targeting a 2028 full-time start date Demonstrate strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures,

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Baseten is building the infrastructure layer for AI — and we're now building the team that will scale how we take it to market. This is a foundational hire on our GTM Strategy & Revenue Operations team, sitting at the intersection of strategic planning and field execution. You'll work directly with the CRO, Head of Revenue Operations and partner closely with Finance, field leadership, and our Central Ops team. On any given week, you might be refining our pipeline generation model, building a territory coverage analysis, designing a new GTM motion, or partnering with a regional leader to understand what's driving a trend in their pipeline. This role requires someone who can think rigorously, build things from scratch, and operate with speed and judgment in an environment where the playbook is still being written. This is a rare opportunity to be an early GTM strategy and operations hire at one of the fastest-growing companies in AI infrastructure — and to help define how we scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO: GTM Planning, Target Setting & Market Intelligence Contribute to the annual and quarterly GTM planning process in partnership with Finance, including headcount modeling, ramp assumptions, and revenue target-setting Build and maintain coverage models aligned to 2-year growth projections, incorporating territory design, account segmentation, and capacity planning Support quota framework development, helping trans

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Baseten is building the infrastructure layer for AI — and we're now building the team that will scale how we take it to market. This is a foundational hire on our GTM Strategy & Revenue Operations team, sitting at the intersection of strategic planning and field execution. You'll work directly with the CRO, Head of Revenue Operations and partner closely with Finance, field leadership, and our Central Ops team. On any given week, you might be refining our pipeline generation model, building a territory coverage analysis, designing a new GTM motion, or partnering with a regional leader to understand what's driving a trend in their pipeline. This role requires someone who can think rigorously, build things from scratch, and operate with speed and judgment in an environment where the playbook is still being written. This is a rare opportunity to be an early GTM strategy and operations hire at one of the fastest-growing companies in AI infrastructure — and to help define how we scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO: GTM Planning, Target Setting & Market Intelligence Contribute to the annual and quarterly GTM planning process in partnership with Finance, including headcount modeling, ramp assumptions, and revenue target-setting Build and maintain coverage models aligned to 2-year growth projections, incorporating territory design, account segmentation, and capacity planning Support quota framework development, helping trans

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the role ChatGPT is changing quickly and so is the market around it. We are looking for a brand strategist who can set direction across a portfolio of important, rapidly changing questions about ChatGPT. We want to help people better understand what ChatGPT stands for, why people should choose it, and how it can become a more useful part of their lives. You will turn complex product, audience, and market signals into clear choices, differentiated positions, and compelling creative work. The remit spans positioning, audience understanding, product and brand storytelling, and creative strategy. Your role is to help connect those areas into a coherent view of how ChatGPT should show up over time. OpenAI has a high-agency culture, and this is an especially dynamic and proactive team. People who thrive here are extremely comfortable with change. You should get energy from the opportunity to identify the most important problems before they are fully defined, bring the right people together, and create momentum around a clear direction. You will have space to find opportunities, shape priorities, influence product and marketing decisions, and build new approaches where no playbook exists. Expect the work to be hands-on. You will work closely with creative, product, product marketing, research, design, and communications partners, setting direction while staying involved from the first idea through delivery. We are looking for someone already immersed in AI who sees this as a moment they want to help shape. In this role, you will: Set direction for how ChatGPT is positioned in the market and shape its broader story across products, audiences, and moments. Develop differentiated positions grounded in what the product does, what people need, how the category is changing, and where the alternatives fall short. Lead a portfolio of high-impact brand and product marketing work. Identify the questions that matter most, establish priorities across competing opportunities, and

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are seeking experienced professionals with a strong background in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cloud Architecture to join our Services Delivery team to help create exciting new offerings and capabilities for our customers! In this strategic role, you will help customers expand their use of the Snowflake Data Cloud to bring AI/ML pipelines from ideation to full production. Leveraging Snowflake’s native features and extensive partner ecosystem, you will advise clients on best practices for scaling production-ready workloads. You will design tailored AI/ML solutions, coordinate closely with customer teams and Systems Integrators, and provide the technical leadership and oversight needed to ensure successful outcomes. AS A PRINCIPAL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake in relation to the AI/ML workload and provide customers with best practices given Snowflakes technology stack. Work with customers to understand their AI/ML use case, discover key requirements, and architect a Snowflake-centric solution to be delivered by Services Delivery. Understand how to build, deploy and AI and ML pipelines using Snowflake features and/or Snowflake ecosystem based on customer requirements. Work hands-on where neede

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Software Engineer II Who is Mastercard Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. About the Role We are hiring a Software Engineer II to join Mastercard's Core Payments department, responsible for delivering solutions that facilitate billions of secure transactions between issuers, acquirers, and service providers worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to highly scalable, mission-critical platforms that power global commerce. We are seeking a software engineer who is passionate about software development, system quality, and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on delivering reliable, maintainable, and secure solutions. Role Software Development & Design • Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality J

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📍 Purchase, New York, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager, Settlement & Currency Services Job Description Summary Settlement & Currency Services is Mastercard’s center of expertise for global settlement, cross-border payments, currency and foreign exchange services, and value movement across traditional and digital financial networks. The team supports initiatives related to fiat and digital currencies, settlement infrastructure, and emerging payment technologies, working across products, markets, and functions to advance strategic priorities. The team also develops solutions that enable funds movement between Mastercard customers, engages with regulators and manages relationships with commercial and central banks. Mastercard is rapidly expanding its global payment, settlement, and digital asset capabilities. The Settlement & Currency Services team is seeking a Manager to help design, develop, and implement innovative solutions that enable the seamless movement of money across borders, currencies, and payment ecosystems, supporting Mastercard's mission to make payments safe, simple, and fast. Roles & Responsibilities The Manager, Settlement & Currency Services will serve as a key liaison across Core Payments Product, Global Settlement Operations, and Technology teams, providing thought leadership and subject matter expertise i

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior AI Platform Engineer (DevOps) Who is Mastercard? Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payment choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart, and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships, and networks combined to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses, and governments realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient (DQ) drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside our company. We cultivate an environment where individuals can thrive, collaborate, and contribute to innovations that power the global economy. Overview: The AI Platform Engineering team is responsible for building, operating, and evolving Mastercard's enterprise AI platforms and capabilities. Our mission is to provide scalable, secure, and reliable AI infrastructure that enables teams across Mastercard to accelerate the development and deployment of AI-powered solutions. As a Senior AI Engineer, you will help design, implement, and operate the foundational platforms that support AI and machine learning workloads across the enterprise. You will work at the intersect

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Baseten's GTM org is in hyper growth. As it grows and matures, the needs of the GTM stack get more sophisticated with scale — and this team exists to stay ahead of those needs. Our GTM Engineering team plays a critical role in building and maintaining the connective tissue across Baseten’s GTM tools, processes, and user experience for the field. The GTM tooling landscape is changing fast, and the teams that win are the ones that adapt and iterate the fastest. This role exists to make sure Baseten is one of them. You'll design, build, and ship AI-powered workflows that scale our GTM functions as a competitive advantage. We want someone who can walk in, audit what we have, identify what we're missing, and start shipping fast. You know when to reach for Clay and when to build something custom in Claude Code. You think two to three steps ahead about how the thing you build today fits into the broader systems architecture tomorrow. And you bring a point of view — on our stack, on what we should be building, and on where AI can do something low-code tooling simply can't. RESPONSIBILITIES Ship AI-powered workflows for the field — build the agents and automations that give reps and managers real leverage, off-loading the manual and repetitive work. Reach for AI where it does something low-code can't. Get insights in front of reps — turn Salesforce, warehouse, and usage data into the dashboards, scores, and alerts reps

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We’re looking for a Product Manufacturing Engineer to drive manufacturing strategy and execution for next-generation AI hardware within the Silicon & Systems team, with a particular focus on PCBA manufacturing, assembly, process development, and production readiness. You will work closely with design engineering, systems engineering, operations, TPMs, contract manufacturers, suppliers, and other external partners to ensure new hardware products successfully transition from concept and prototype builds through NPI and high-volume production. You’ll own critical manufacturing initiatives, identify and resolve production risks, and help establish the processes and controls required to deliver complex hardware at scale. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Drive manufacturing and quality initiatives to ensure product success from concept and early development through NPI, production launch, and scale. Lead manufacturing process development for next-generation AI hardware systems, partnering closely with design engineering, systems engineering, operations, TPMs, suppliers, and manufacturing partners. Own PCBA manufacturing development and production readiness, including assembly processes, process validation, manufacturing test, rework, yield improvement, and successful transition into volume production. Establish NPI manufact

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -83%

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE: Are you the person on your team who builds the agent everyone else ends up using? We're looking for an AI Engineer to join our Training Product team and do that at Baseten. You'll build AI-driven product features for the customers training and post-training frontier models on our platform, and you'll raise the ceiling on how Baseten itself uses AI internally, turning manual workflows into agentic ones that make every other team faster. You'll work directly with our research engineers to scope and build products, taking ideas from a research loop that already works internally to something customers can run themselves. This is a hands-on role with real autonomy. You'll pick the problems worth solving, build the harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make AI systems reliable, and own the results. If you've been shipping agents and want that to be the job, let's talk. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES: Take a look at these blog posts written by members of our team: Baseten Training: an autoresearch substrate Introducing Baseten Loops Harnesses are everything. Here's how to optimize yours. Building with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra and LangChain Deep Agents Code on Baseten RESPONSIBILITIES: Build and ship agentic product experiences, including chat-style and assistant-like interfaces, from prototype to GA. Design the harnesses, execution flows, and guardrails that make AI systems reliable in production. Build internal autom

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