Platform Engineering Director in San Francisco

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: Voice is becoming the internet’s next interface, but a production-grade Voice AI system is "hard to build" . You’ll join a small founding team of Baseten Voice AI, focused on bringing state-of-the-art open source models into production for Voice AI customers across productivity, customer service, clinical conversation, creator tools, education, and more. You’ll make a meaningful impact on people’s daily lives and help reshape these industries. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role. You will be the primary owner of Baseten Voice AI - our in-house inference stack to power Voice AI models - from product roadmap through engineering implementation. You’ll partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineers, Model Performance Engineers, and sister engineering teams to push the boundaries of Voice AI. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES: Develop world-class model serving stack for state-of-the-art open-source voice models - reduce end-to-end and tail latency (p95/p99), increase throughput, and improve GPU efficiency via profiling, runtime tuning, and server-level optimizations. Build large-scale, real-time infrastructure for multi-model voice agents - orchestrate STT, TTS, and agent components with streaming I/O to meet customer SLOs. Design tight training and inference iteration loops for voice model customization - enable fast evaluation, safe rollout, and rapid experimentation for custom voice model development. Past projects:

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 We are seeking a Sales Manager to help lead a team of Strategic Account Executives. This person will be responsible for building and coaching a team of high-performing sales reps, driving revenue growth, and partnering closely with product and engineering to bring our cutting-edge AI infrastructure to customers. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead and mentor a team of Strategic Account Executives to consistently exceed pipeline and revenue goals. Help define and execution on go-to-market strategy for our fastest growing customer segment. Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, and Engineering to align customer needs with Baseten’s product roadmap. Be deeply engaged with the product, enabling reps to have highly technical conversations with prospects and customers. Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and collaboration within the sales team. REQUIREMENTS 6+ years of closing sales experience, with 2+ years in management leading high-performing teams. Strong technical acumen, ideally with background in AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms. Comfortable operating in the weeds with technical products and guiding reps through complex deals. Proven track record of success in Strategic/Enterprise sales environments. Based in San Francisco or New York and open to coming in office at least 3 days per week (Tuesday-Thursday). BENEFITS Competitive compensation, including meaningful equ

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 We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) Manager to build, support, and continuously enhance Baseten’s security governance, compliance, and privacy programs. As one of the early members of our security organization, you will play a key role in ensuring our platform meets and exceeds the highest standards for privacy, trust, and regulatory compliance. In this role, you’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, legal, and leadership teams to develop policies, manage audits, and implement controls aligned with frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and FedRAMP. You’ll be instrumental in building scalable processes to manage risk, support customer assurance, and uphold Baseten’s commitment to security and compliance as we grow. RESPONSIBILITIES Governance & Policy Development: Design, implement, and maintain security governance frameworks, policies, and procedures that align with Baseten’s risk posture and industry best practices. Risk Management: Build and manage the company-wide risk assessment program, identifying, tracking, and mitigating key security and compliance risks. Compliance Operations: Lead efforts to achieve and maintain compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701, HIPAA, FedRAMP and other applicable standards and regulations. Audit & Certification Management: Coordinate external audits and certification processes, ensuring e

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 We're looking for a Procurement Lead to build Baseten's procurement function from the ground up. This is a foundational, high-ownership role for someone who wants to define how a company runs procurement, not inherit an existing process. As the company scales across engineering, GTM, and corporate functions, we need to build purchasing workflows and vendor relationships. This is a rare, critical-moment hire: you'll set the leading-practice processes, systems, and policies that the company runs on as it continues to grow, with the mandate and dedicated focus to build something built to scale. This role exists to make procurement a source of leverage for the business, not friction. Your goal is to build scalable process, take on vendor management and RFP work that today sits informally with individual teams, and free up business owners' time and capacity, all while building the guardrails the company needs as it grows. You'll partner closely with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners across the company, and you'll be judged on whether teams feel supported and unblocked, not slowed down. RESPONSIBILITIES Procurement Strategy and Process Design and implement Baseten's first company-wide procurement process, approval routing, and other workflows Establish procurement policies (spend thresholds, approval authority, competitive bidding requirements) tailored to a high-growth business Design pr

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: 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. This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial, customer-facing technical professionals who want a front-row view into how modern companies adopt AI at scale, and who enjoy working across technical discovery, solution design, demos, deployment scoping, and hands-on customer implementations, in close partnership with Sales and Engineering. RESPONSIBILITIES: Partner with Sales on customer discovery calls (most often second calls, occasionally first calls for large accounts). Lead demos and technical scoping to align on success criteria, architecture, and deployment approach. Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments , including: Handling standard deployment patterns and configurations across many modalities – LLMs, embeddings, image and video generation, VoiceAI, etc. Advising on tradeoffs like H100s vs B200s and latency-optimized vs throughput-optimized setups. Driving consistent “playbook” style deployments for common models and use cases. Become a power user of different runtimes such as vllm, sglang, and TRT-LLM and all the common configurations and tradeoffs between them Drive POC and project execution , including: Scoping POCs and keeping stakeholders aligned on timeline, deliv

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 We are seeking a Sales Manager to help lead a team of Account Executives within our Startups segment. This hire will be responsible for building and coaching a team of high-performing sales reps, driving revenue growth, and partnering closely with product and engineering to bring our cutting-edge AI infrastructure to customers. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead and mentor a team of Startups Account Executives to consistently exceed pipeline and revenue goals. Help define and execution on go-to-market strategy for our fastest growing customer segment. Hire and scale the team by recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding top talent Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, and Engineering to align customer needs with Baseten’s product roadmap. Be deeply engaged with the product, enabling reps to have highly technical conversations with prospects and customers. Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and collaboration within the sales team. REQUIREMENTS 4+ years of closing sales experience, with 2+ years in management leading high-performing teams. Strong technical acumen, ideally with background in AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms. Comfortable operating in the weeds with technical products and guiding reps through complex deals. Proven track record of success in high velocity sales environments. Based in San Francisco or New York City and open to coming in office at least 3 d

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 At Baseten, we’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive our most complex, cross-cutting infrastructure programs. This role will operate across all domains of AI infrastructure, from the GPUs up to the multi-cluster orchestration layer. This is an execution-first role. The work is less about owning a single system and more about imposing order on ambiguity: standing up the right structures, driving decisions to closure, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks across dozens of stakeholders. If you take satisfaction in turning a chaotic, half-defined initiative into a predictable, well-governed program, this role is for you. RESPONSIBILITIES Own complex migrations end to end. Lead large-scale infrastructure migrations across teams and domains. This will involve scoping the work, sequencing dependencies, managing risk, and driving them to completion without surprises. Drive process across infrastructure. Establish and run the operating rhythms that keep programs healthy: planning cadences, status reporting, decision logs, risk reviews, and escalation paths. Make the process light enough that teams adopt it and rigorous enough that it actually works. Help managers build the right structures. Partner with engineering managers and leads to design the team structures, ownership boundaries, and working models a program needs to succeed. Spot gaps in accountability before they become problems. Own fo

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. At Baseten, we are building the global operating system for distributed, heterogeneous AI hardware. We believe that as LLM and multi-modal workloads scale, the network is the computer. We are looking for foundational engineers to lead our GPU Networking efforts, making RDMA a first-class building block in our infrastructure and unlocking the next generation of distributed inference optimizations. THE OPPORTUNITY Networking and compute are no longer separate disciplines; they are converging. The massive throughput of H100, B200, and NVL72 architectures enables and demands a new approach where communication is co-optimized alongside computation. We are entering an era where the network is an active accelerator, leveraging smart hardware offloads and direct interconnects to ensure that data movement operates at wire-speed. In this role, you will go beyond network configuration to architect the software fabric that unifies thousands of GPUs into a cohesive operating system. While you will leverage the best of the open-source ecosystem, you won't be limited by it. Where off-the-shelf solutions stop, you will build from scratch, engineering the primitives required to co-optimize communication and compute for Disaggregated Serving, Wide Expert Parallelism (WideEP), and lightening cold starts. WHAT YOU'LL DO Make RDMA First-Class: You will work on integrating RDMA/RoCE/InfiniBand capabilities directly into our inference stack,

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: As a Software Engineer at Baseten, you will own one of the most critical surfaces of our business: pricing, billing, and revenue infrastructure. As we launch more and more products— billing is no longer just operational plumbing. It is a strategic lever for growth. This role will establish clear ownership of billing as a function and create leverage for Finance, Sales, and GTM teams while maintaining a seamless customer experience. RESPONSIBILITIES: Own Baseten’s end-to-end billing and revenue infrastructure, including pricing, invoicing, metering, and reporting foundations. Build and evolve our billing platform and integrations (including Orb), ensuring correctness, auditability, and a high-trust experience for customers and internal teams. Partner closely with Finance, Sales, GTM, and Forward Deployed Engineering to turn real-world workflows into reliable internal tooling and automation (quoting, approvals, renewals, usage reconciliation, revenue reporting). Design systems that scale with new products, packaging, and go-to-market motions, making billing a strategic lever for growth. Drive reliability and operational excellence for revenue-critical workflows: monitoring, alerting, incident response, backfills, and clear runbooks. Lead from the front on high-impact projects: clarify requirements, propose crisp technical approaches, ship iteratively, and raise the bar on quality and velocity. Debug and resolve

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. We are the first line of defense against fraud and abuse on the Plaid platform. Our mission is to ensure the safety and integrity of our platform for consumers and customers. As a Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst , you will be responsible for responding to fraud and abuse events, investigating claims, and triaging incidents. We also partner with product and engineering teams to inform and improve fraud mitigation strategies. Responsibilities: Safeguard Plaid's Platform: Participate in the abuse on-call rotation, directly protecting our users and customers by responding to and resolving fraud and abuse events. Your timely actions will be instrumental in maintaining trust and security. Drive Investigations and Mitigate Risks: Investigate fraud and abuse claims from diverse sources, partnering with senior teammates on complex cases. Your findings will inform decisions and strategies, directly impacting Plaid's ability to prevent future incidents and minimize financial losses. Proactively perform threat modeling of abuse surfaces and continuously survey external fraud trends, adversary techniques, tooling, and emerging threat vectors Support Incident Response: Help triage and manage fraud and abuse ev

About the team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In support of that mission, the ChatGPT Ads team is building advertising products that help businesses reach customers in useful, trusted, and responsible ways. The Ads Strategy, Planning, and Operations team is responsible for building the operating foundation for OpenAI's advertising business: GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, planning, forecasting, business rhythms, sales programs, incentives, and scalable execution across advertisers, agencies, partners, resellers, and internal teams. This team sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success. About the role We’re looking for a Sales Strategy & Operations Lead to help build the GTM operating system for ChatGPT Ads. This person will work across sales strategy, planning, systems, segmentation, forecasting, operating rhythm, sales programs, and commercial execution to help the Ads business scale with clarity, speed, and control. This role is for someone who can move between strategy and execution: able to define operating models, build analytical frameworks, run cross-functional planning processes, improve GTM systems and data quality, and program manage high-priority sales initiatives. The ideal candidate has meaningful experience in digital advertising, media, adtech, marketplace, or platform businesses and understands the complexity of scaling sales motions across direct sales, agencies, partners, resellers, outsourced channels, and self-serve. In this role, you’ll: Help build the operating foundation for ChatGPT Ads across GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, forecasting, sales planning, and business reviews. Partner with Sales, Ads Ops, Product, Engineering, Strategic Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Data teams to translate strategy into execution. Develop objective frameworks for ac

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 software engineer to help build the design methodology, software abstractions, and infrastructure that enable a small silicon team to develop complex chips rapidly and with high confidence. You will turn evolving architecture and design needs into reusable tools and workflows that improve iteration speed, quality, and then apply those tools to help construct world-class silicon. You’ll work closely across architecture, design, verification, performance modeling, and systems software. This role is well suited for an engineer who enjoys building high quality software and is motivated by the challenge of improving velocity and quality of the silicon development process. In this role, you will: Develop and scale design methodologies for rapid first-party chip development and apply them to construct complex custom chips Create abstractions that allow hardware structures, configurations, experiments, and results to be represented consistently across tools. Automate high-value engineering workflows and improve their reproducibility, observability, testability, and ease of use. Partner with architects, RTL designers, verification engineers, compiler engineers, and systems software engineers to gather requirements and then implement solutions. Use methodology and tooling to identify design risks early, accelerate iteration, and improve confidence in performance and implementation tradeoffs. Contribute across multiple aspects of software and hardware

About the Team OpenAI’s Sourcing and Procurement organization helps the company acquire and scale the products, services, and partnerships needed to advance its mission. As the organization grows, we are looking for a strategic builder-operator to establish an AI-led contracting capability that improves speed, consistency, and execution across the company. In this role, you will partner with leaders and stakeholders across Procurement, Legal, Finance, Security, Engineering, and business teams to design and oversee the contracting process from intake through negotiation and lifecycle management. You will bring structure to ambiguity, align partners around shared priorities, and build repeatable operating mechanisms, responsible AI-assisted workflows, and a centralized contract lifecycle management (CLM) system of record that enable sourcing coordinators to execute agreements consistently and help the business scale. About the Role As a Contract Management Lead, you will build, lead, and continuously improve OpenAI’s AI-led contracting help desk—a new capability designed to scale contract drafting, review, negotiation, and lifecycle management without significantly increasing headcount. You will own the service strategy, operating model, delivery oversight, coordinator enablement, workflow design, and performance tracking. Sourcing coordinators will manage day-to-day negotiations and agreement execution; you will ensure they have the tools, playbooks, training, guidance, and escalation support required to deliver timely, consistent, and well-governed outcomes. This is a builder-operator and service-ownership role for someone who combines strong commercial contracting and legal-language fluency with a product-management mentality. You will be hands-on in building the systems, playbooks, AI-enabled workflows, and reporting that support the contracting desk—not in personally negotiating every agreement. You will use a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform as the c

About the Team The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role OpenAI’s top-of-funnel is evolving into a signal-driven, data-orchestrated engine powered by AI-native workflows, enriched customer intelligence, and increasingly interconnected systems. We are looking for a Technical Systems Program Manager to help drive the strategy, alignment, prioritization, and execution of these systems across Salesforce and adjacent platforms. This role will partner closely with Engineering, Revenue Operations, Data, and Enterprise Platform teams to operationalize scalable CRM workflows. The ideal candidate combines strong technical fluency, operational systems thinking, and stakeholder leadership with the ability to drive execution across highly cross-functional environments. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and the team works a hybrid schedule (Monday - Wednesday in office). We will offer relocation assistance if needed. In this role, you will: Own and drive CRM systems initiatives across support Partner with senior business stakeholders and engineering teams to identify operational pain points, define scalable solutions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and execute across Salesforce and adjacent platforms Align cross-functional stakeholders including Revenue Operations, Support Delivery, Risk, Engineering, Data, Legal, and Enterprise Platform teams while driving prioritization and execution Help operationalize AI-native workflows by defining and building s

About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. About the Role We are hiring a Growth Marketing Manager to turn product-led growth priorities into clear audience strategies, compelling cross-channel messaging, coordinated go-to-market programs, and drive measurable, incremental growth. You will partner closely with Growth Product, Consumer Product Marketing, Lifecycle, Performance Marketing, Brand, Creative, Research, Data Science, and International Marketing to ensure that full-funnel campaigns and initiatives are supported and connected to Growth capabilities and maximize the performance of these campaigns. In this role, you will: Build the marketing layer across the Growth roadmap: acquisition, access, activation and resurrection, monetization, and the shared Growth Platform. Translate product hypotheses into audience insights, positioning, messaging, launch briefs, lifecycle journeys, landing-page narratives, performance creative, and in-product education. Maintain an integrated plan that connects the Growth product roadmap to the consumer product marketing calendar across lifecycle, performance, social, creators, partnerships, and brand moments. Serve as the subject matter expert across all Growth levers, advising teams across the organization on the most effective ways to integrate Growth into their initiatives. Partner with cross-functional teams to design and interrogate the user journey so we can align our external promises with in-product and owned-channel landing, access, onboarding, continuation, and conversion experiences. Create audience and market playbooks for new users, high-valu