Baseten

Baseten builds infrastructure for AI products. The company's approach involves engineers working directly with customers to translate operational challenges into platform services. Its technical work spans AI infrastructure, developer tools, kernel-level performance optimization, and inference optimization.

The company's primary product is an AI platform designed to support production AI applications, built from insights gained through direct customer collaboration. The team operates with a focus on rapid iteration and hands-on problem solving, with engineers embedded alongside customers to inform product development.

Baseten describes itself as an internationally diverse group organized into small teams with significant ownership. The working culture emphasizes daily shipping and obsessive optimization, with a stated preference for shipping velocity over formal process.