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Baseten

Runs AI models for production software

Executive Assistant to CRO & Head of Strategic Sales

Full-Time
$140k - $170k/yr+ Equity
Mid, Senior
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Administrative & Executive AssistanceExecutive Support

About the job

Requirements
  • 3-5+ years of experience supporting senior leaders such as a CRO, VP of Sales, or Head of Strategic Sales in a high-growth technology company, venture capital or private equity firm, or professional services environment.
  • Understanding of revenue organizations and experience supporting sales operating rhythms, pipeline and forecasting cycles, and fast-moving go-to-market teams.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with sound judgment about when and how to communicate on behalf of executives.
  • Ability to coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives involving many stakeholders.
  • Experience managing complex calendars, domestic and international travel, executive communications, and recurring operating cadences.
  • Experience supporting team offsites, celebrations, and milestone events with attention to detail.
  • Ability to work professionally with senior leaders, customers, prospects, candidates, and external partners.
Responsibilities
  • Own complex calendar management for the CRO and Head of Strategic Sales, balancing shifting priorities and ensuring time is allocated intentionally.
  • Prepare leaders for each day and meeting by proactively managing agendas, materials, context, logistics, and follow-ups so time is used effectively and decisions move forward.
  • Support forward-looking calendar planning and coordinate recurring operating cadences, including pipeline reviews, leadership meetings, QBRs, Sales All Hands, and other cross-functional forums.
  • Coordinate executive meetings, visits, and other engagements with customers and external partners.
  • Support executive inbox management by helping prioritize communications, triage requests, and ensure timely follow-up.
  • Coordinate domestic and international travel for both leaders, including last-minute changes.
  • Support planning team offsites, celebrations, and milestone recognition events; coordinate logistics end-to-end, including venues, budgets, and vendors.
  • Identify opportunities to improve the Sales leadership team’s processes so they become more efficient, scalable, and reliable.

About the company

Baseten runs AI models for software companies that need fast, reliable responses inside their products, from text generation to speech and image processing. Its Inference Stack combines optimized model runtimes with infrastructure that deploys, serves, and monitors custom or open models in production. Teams package models with its open source Truss tool, while Model APIs let developers test ready-to-use models and Training runs jobs that adapt models to their own data. Customers pay for computing time or tokens processed, with negotiated plans for larger deployments and support needs. Baseten was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series F

Total Funding

$2.1B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • Expansion has funding: Baseten's June 2026 $1.5 billion Series F finances compute, software, and talent.
  • Demand creates room to grow: Baseten reported 20-fold annual revenue growth in June 2026.
  • Enterprise buyers get compliance support: Baseten's Basic plan lists HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 Type II.

What critics are saying

  • Published hardware choices rely on Nvidia: Baseten's GPU menu lists no AMD or proprietary-chip alternative.
  • One San Francisco role requires office time: Baseten's Office Manager listing specifies five onsite days and flexible event hours.
  • Its inference rival has scale: Modal reported over $300 million annualized revenue in May 2026.

What makes Baseten unique

  • Baseten pools scarce GPUs: its scheduler treats capacity across more than 20 clouds as one shared resource.
  • Baseten embeds specialists: Gamma credits its engineers with serving 70 million users without hiring internal infrastructure staff.
  • Chains avoids oversized pipelines: Baseten assigns separate hardware and scaling rules to each model and processing step.

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Benefits

  • 💰 Competitive compensation: We aim to provide 90th percentile (or better) salaries and equity grants for every team member commensurate with their experience.
  • 🌎 Remote-first work environment: The Baseten team is welcome to work from wherever they want; fully remote, in our San Francisco office, or a mix of both. We provide a $1,000 stipend for you to make your home office comfortable and productive.
  • 🏓 Regular in-person team summits: We get together as a team three times a year to plan, workshop, and most importantly, get to know each other better.
  • 🌴 Unlimited PTO: We ask that everyone take at least 4 weeks of vacation. And we have a company-wide break between Christmas and New Year's Day.
  • 🏥 Full healthcare coverage: Medical, dental and vision insurance for you and your family.
  • 🍼 Paid parental leave: 16-weeks fully paid parental leave (adoptive and non-birth parents included) and flexibility with schedules while returning to work.
  • 📈 401(k): Company-sponsored 401(k) for you to contribute to.
  • 🧠: Learning and development budget: We encourage you to take classes, attend conferences, and invest in your craft and we'll cover expenses to make it happen.

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6 month growth

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Baseten
Oct 14th, 2026
Deploy Runway's video models on Baseten.

Deploy Runway's video models on Baseten. You can now deploy Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 on secure, single-tenant environments on Baseten. Published. October 14, 2026 Baseten has partnered with Runway to bring its video models to enterprises on Baseten. You can deploy Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0, including fine-tuned versions, in single-tenant environments through Baseten Dedicated Inference. Runway builds models that generate and edit cinematic video using text, images, audio, and existing footage. Runway's frontier video generation and editing models, Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0, are now available directly through Baseten. Runway's video models: Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0. Gen-4.5 turns text and image inputs into video, with support for detailed scene direction, camera movement, and a range of visual styles. You can use it to visualize a storyboard, animate a product image, create cinematic B-roll, or adapt a campaign concept into multiple variations. Aleph 2.0 complements Gen-4.5 by letting you modify generated or real footage you already have. Starting with a prompt or edited keyframe, you can change a specific element or restyle a scene, then carry that edit across relevant shots while preserving the surrounding details. The model supports multi-scene videos up to 30 seconds at 1080p. Runway offers these models through Runway Creative, its platform for generating and editing video, images and audio, and Runway Dev, its API platform for developers. Through this partnership, Runway is also making its proprietary video models available for dedicated deployment on Baseten. Deploy Runway models on Baseten. You can license Runway model weights directly from Runway and deploy them in a secure, single-tenant environment on Baseten. Each deployment runs in an isolated workload plane with dedicated GPU resources, while Baseten manages the control plane and underlying infrastructure. Runway and Baseten support each deployment together, from model customization through production serving. * Security and compliance: Compute and scheduling are isolated to your organization. Baseten's access to Runway's model weights is governed by a distribution agreement, and your deployment runs on infrastructure covered by Baseten's SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance programs. * Fine-tuning: You can fine-tune Runway models on your own data so their outputs reflect your brand, canon, and content guidelines. Your direct license with Runway governs this work, while Baseten provides the infrastructure to run the fine-tuning and deploy the resulting model in a dedicated environment. * Dedicated capacity: You get reserved GPU capacity for video-generation workloads, with autoscaling to handle spikes in demand. Your Runway deployment runs in an isolated workload plane with dedicated GPU nodes, while Baseten manages the control plane. Runway in the enterprise. Amazon, Robinhood, Dolce & Gabbana, and Microsoft are among the enterprise creative teams already using Runway in production. Baseten backs dedicated deployments with a 99.99% uptime SLA. Ready to join them? Learn more and deploy Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 on Baseten dedicated inference.

Baseten
Oct 9th, 2026
Project Beacon: Bringing safety signals to open models at scale.

Project Beacon: Bringing safety signals to open models at scale. Baseten partners with Goodfire AI to bring safety controls to open model inference. Published. October 9, 2026 The breadth and depth of what AI touches across an organization is growing. Models and agents read internal documents, call tools, push to production systems, and run multi-step workflows autonomously. At the same time, new frontier models are released weekly (sometimes daily), with most teams regularly swapping the old for the new and running different constellations of models side-by-side. Meanwhile, reports of models taking unexpected or harmful actions have become a regular feature of the news cycle. For enterprises, that risk has become one of the main blockers to AI adoption. Teams need to know when their workflows enter risky territory and have a way to act in response. Baseten has already taken steps to build safety into the Baseten Platform, including launching Base Labs to conduct open safety research, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to launch its safety infrastructure, and partnering with NVIDIA on the Open Agent Safety Platform. Today, Baseten is announcing Project Beacon in partnership with Goodfire AI to bring proactive, inline safety controls to model inference. The risks Baseten is building for. Project Beacon will enable Baseten to build toward a world where safety isn't a static feature, or something that happens post hoc. By reading a model's internal activations during generation, you can define proactive policies that detect an unsafe event as it's happening and act on it before the output reaches a user or a tool. Safety risks at the inference layer take different forms: * Prompt injection: instructions in a document or tool result try to redirect an agent. * Actions outside policy: an agent proposes a change its user or organization did not authorize. * Sensitive data exposure: customer or company information appears where it should not. * Cyber misuse: a model's behavior raises concerns in a security-sensitive workflow. Each calls for a mixture of monitoring, text checks, tool controls, and review. While Goodfire develops monitors for specific behaviors on supported models, Baseten connects their signals to the systems that decide how an application responds. By bringing activation-based probes into Baseten's inference path, Baseten can open up product experiences that aren't possible otherwise. Architecture diagram: activation and text monitors classify each request, and a frontier model weighs in only when the two disagree. Per-customer policies are applied to decide whether to request approval, refuse, fall back, or log the event for admins. Monitoring runs in parallel with generation and does not block response generation. What this means for Baseten customers. Baseten is building toward an out-of-the-box safety experience: a baseline of supported monitors and checks, policies for different workloads, alerts, and a record of what was flagged and how it was handled. Teams will be able to apply their own standards per model with a safety stack that's built in. For enterprises. Security and AI platform teams see open frontier models they want to deploy, but need guardrails around prompt injection, behavior outside company policy, sensitive data exposure, and unusual usage. As inference spend grows across teams, separate filters and review processes for every application become hard to govern. Baseten'll provide a safety baseline that can be applied centrally, adjustable policies by workload, and a clear record of what was flagged and how it was handled. For developers. Baseten is working toward safety events and controls delivered through the same APIs and developer tools used for inference on Baseten, so builders can easily act on those signals and create safer AI experiences. Consider a payment-dispute agent that reads merchant messages and account records before proposing a refund. Untrusted content might redirect it; a wrong action could expose data or move money. At scale, reviewing every step with another large model adds cost and latency. Developers need timely signals they can use to choose the right response - continue, investigate, request approval, or fall back - without giving up control of their users' experience. Safety becomes part of the product experience as agents run longer and take more actions. What comes next. Over the next several months, Baseten plan to release safety capabilities tightly integrated with Baseten inference, starting with selected models and monitored behaviors and expanding into enterprise controls and developer-facing experiences. Baseten is committed to advancing the state of the art in safety as the ecosystem's needs grow. This includes inference, training, and sandboxes - and whatever comes next. Securing AI gets harder as you scale; each new model brings its own risks, and agents broaden the surface for failure. Project Beacon exists to enforce consistent safety controls across any model, workload, and level of access you run. Baseten'll bring the capabilities produced by Project Beacon to market with a small number of early partners. If you're interested, reach out to discuss early access and partnership.

Baseten
Sep 28th, 2026
Securing the open frontier with NVIDIA OpenShell and Blaxel sandboxes.

Securing the open frontier with NVIDIA OpenShell and Blaxel sandboxes. Baseten is a launch partner for the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform and supports OpenShell in the latest generation of Blaxel Sandboxes. Published. September 28, 2026 Agent safety has become top of mind in recent weeks, specifically focused on where failure modes lie and how to address them. Baseten is thrilled to support NVIDIA's Agent Safety Platform, which addresses safety across three critical areas: the application layer, runtime, and infrastructure. As a launch partner for NVIDIA OpenShell and part of the Open Secure AI Alliance, Baseten is working together to further the open, secure frontier, including the stack powering agents in production. Building open safety controls for agentic infrastructure. At Baseten, Baseten believe openness is an advantage for AI safety. Baseten continue to invest in building safety controls for the open frontier across inference, training, and sandboxes. Base Labs develops and publishes methods for training and monitoring open models, and Baseten builds that work into its deployment infrastructure at runtime. Baseten recently launched its safety infrastructure effort with Base Labs, Hugging Face, and Goodfire AI in this vein; joining the Open Secure AI Alliance extends that commitment. Monitoring only helps if its signals connect to permissions, isolation, and checks before an agent executes code. Blaxel's sandboxes and networking layer are where those controls live for agents running on Baseten. Blaxel also supports OpenShell, NVIDIA's open-source runtime that enforces policy at the kernel level; OpenShell is agnostic to the compute the agent runs on. Why Blaxel: secure sandboxes for agents. Baseten acquired Blaxel to build the cloud for the next trillion agents. While Baseten builds the infrastructure to train and serve models, Blaxel is the execution layer agents need to act: microVM sandboxes, persistent storage, and networking with tight access controls. Today Baseten is introducing a private preview of Carbon, Blaxel's fourth infrastructure generation built to support trillions of agents in production. Coming to Baseten soon, Carbon will provide the backbone for sandboxes and broader execution infrastructure for agentic workflows on the Baseten platform. Introducing Carbon: Blaxel's fourth-generation infrastructure. When Astra-grade agents are writing and running their own code, hardware-level isolation becomes a necessity (Baseten has written before about why containers break down once agents start generating their own code). Carbon still runs on microVMs, and every Carbon sandbox gets its own dedicated IPv6 address. Somewhere between billions and trillions of agents will be running in parallel this decade; IPv6 is the only addressing scheme with room to spare. Carbon is much more flexible and configurable than any previous infrastructure generation Baseten built. Beyond IPv6, the main features shipping with Carbon are kernel capabilities for agents and runtime enforcement, manual snapshotting, forking, and a direct path from snapshot to production within milliseconds. Because Carbon brings additional kernel capabilities to the sandbox, it can run heavier runtime software directly inside it. That opens the door to a new generation of tooling built specifically for frontier agentic AI, including NVIDIA's newly announced OpenShell. Baseten built a ready-to-use template so you can boot a Carbon sandbox with OpenShell already installed. If OpenShell flags an agent mid-task and quarantines it, Carbon's snapshots mean you roll back to the last known-good state instantly instead of losing the run. Get early access to Carbon. Carbon is currently in private preview and rolling out progressively by region and workspace. The full snapshot and fork API reference is available in the Blaxel docs. Upcoming posts will go deeper into security inside and outside Carbon sandboxes, forking and snapshotting workflows, and the application model that Carbon makes possible. If you're already on 3.0 and want access to Carbon, reach out!

The Information
Sep 25th, 2026
Figma CMO Sheila Vashee joins AI inference startup Baseten

Sheila Vashee, former chief marketing officer at Figma, has joined AI inference startup Baseten. Vashee spent three years at the design software firm before departing this summer during an executive shakeup. Her exit in August contributed to a decline in Figma's stock price. Baseten is described as a rapidly growing upstart in the AI infrastructure space, though specific details about the company's recent growth or funding were not provided in the source material.

Bloomberg
Sep 23rd, 2026
Startups Modal, Baseten in funding talks to help businesses run AI.

Startups Modal, Baseten in funding talks to help businesses run AI. September 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM PDT Takeaways by Bloomberg aisubscribe. Two startups that provide platforms to help businesses run artificial intelligence models are in talks to raise capital that could at least double their valuations, a sign of surging investor demand for infrastructure services. Modal Labs is in talks to raise new financing at a roughly $15 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the matter, roughly triple what it was worth in a round four months ago. Baseten is in talks for a funding round that could value it at $26 billion, people said, up from $13 billion in June. The firms are each tapping into the market for inference services, or the process of running AI systems after they've been trained. By some estimates, spending on chips and computing for inference is expected to eclipse that of training AI services, reflecting stronger adoption of the technology and the shift to more computationally intensive tools like agents. At the same time, the growing number of startups providing inference platforms require more capital in order to secure the computing power and chips needed to offer their services to customers. Baseten and Modal declined to comment. The people described the discussions on condition of anonymity as the information is not public. Axios of the Baseten round. Baseten, founded in 2019, delivers software and computing capacity to other startups. For example, Baseten offers its customers "the ability to run these models when they don't necessarily have access to the infrastructure teams of the frontier labs doing it for them," said Tuhin Srivastava, the company's chief executive officer, in a previous interview with Bloomberg. Modal, which was founded in 2021, lets customers run inference tasks using both graphics chips like those from Nvidia Corp. and regular computer chips. At least some of the demand for AI inference startups may be due to the rise of cheap, effective open-source models from China and other markets, according to Dr. Lan Xuezhao, founder and managing partner of venture firm Basis Set in a previous interview. More companies are turning to these startups to help power their own efforts to build, refine and run internal models on open-source technology, while seeking the infrastructure to support it, Xuezhao said.