Baseten

Solution Architect

Remote Solution Architect role with clear candidate location fit.

PostedFeb 25, 2026

Eligible countries2 accepted countries

Seniority signalLead

Work settingRemote

Accepted candidate locations

CanadaUSA

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Role overview

Solution Architect

Requirements and responsibilities

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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-LMM and all the common configurations and tradeoffs between them
Drive POC and project execution, including:
Scoping POCs and keeping stakeholders aligned on timeline, deliverables, and next steps.
Acting as the “ringleader” or project manager for POCs.
Pulling in Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) support when deeper or more complex technical work is needed.
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.
Experience running or supporting benchmarks for ML inference deployments.
Familiarity with infrastructure tradeoffs relevant to inference performance and cost (for example GPU selection and latency versus throughput tuning).
Experience serving as a cross-functional technical lead for customer POCs, including coordination across Sales and Engineering.
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 (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.