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What a Baseten forward deployed engineer does

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A Baseten forward deployed engineer (FDE) acts as "each account's de facto CTO on Baseten", in the posting's words. The work covers inference, post-training and the evals that connect them.

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How a Baseten forward deployed engineer works

The posting describes each customer project in these stages.

  1. 01

    Frame it

    Take an unclear customer goal and turn it into a specification with measures of success.

  2. 02

    Prove it

    Build the proof of concept, and design evals that show where quality or speed falls short.

  3. 03

    Close the gap

    Speed up inference, improve the model with post-training, or rework the eval.

  4. 04

    Run it

    Be the first responder when something critical fails, and stay accountable until the fix ships.

  5. 05

    Feed it back

    Ship fixes and features into Baseten's own codebase, and build tools so the next project is faster.

Baseten FDE roles

RoleLocation
Forward Deployed EngineerSan Francisco
Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)San Francisco

How Baseten compares

The Training FDE posting asks for only a short minimum of software engineering experience. The catch is scope. You look after several accounts at once and own their production incidents.

The posting names Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer as Baseten customers.

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