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About the Role

As Baseten’s Head of Data Center Infrastructure, you’ll own the strategy, design, and execution of our first-generation GPU data centers. This is a high-ownership, hands-on leadership role where you’ll act as the technical authority across facility design and build, working closely with contractors, vendors, and internal teams to bring new capacity online quickly and reliably. Your decisions will directly impact how fast we deploy GPUs and how efficiently they run.

Responsibilities

Own data center infrastructure strategy, design, and execution.
Define electrical, mechanical, and physical network infrastructure architecture.
Lead power, cooling, cabling, and rack design decisions.
Own commissioning, failover testing, and thermal validation.
Manage A/E firms, GCs, vendors, and low-voltage contractors.
Establish maintenance programs, runbooks, as-builts, and deployment standards.
Build and lead the data center engineering and operations functions.

Requirements

Experience designing and delivering data centers or large-scale infrastructure.
Deep knowledge of electrical distribution and cooling systems.
Experience with high-density racks and GPU infrastructure.
Familiarity with structured cabling, LVC, and fiber documentation.
Experience managing contractors, vendors, GCs, and A/E firms.
Strong ownership across strategy, design, execution, and operations.
Ability to operate at strategic and hands-on levels.

Benefits

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.

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).