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Baseten Salary

Baseten Salary

Baseten pays a median of $230K ($195K–$248K) across 101 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $195K–$248K salary range

Median: $230K  ·  Based on 101 public Baseten job postings  ·  Updated October 24, 2026


This Baseten salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Baseten · pay benchmark · updated October 24, 2026
$230K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$195K–$248K
Typical range
$400K view JD
Highest base · Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)
101
Open roles
~5 yrs
Typical exp.
+19
57 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 99% of roles mention equity · rsu
IC salary by seniority
Mid
$248K (33)
Senior
$248K (9)
Management pay by function
EPD
$248K (8)
GTM
$200K (10)
G&A
$195K (6)
Salary by department · median & top base
epd
$248K · $400K top (47)
gtm
$203K · $360K top (26)
g&a
$203K · $300K top (24)
Pay by location
San Francisco $240K (89)New York $184K (10)
Highest-paying skills
Python $248KGo $248KKubernetes $248KLLMs $248KPyTorch $248KGrafana $248KDocker $248KSpark $245K

Highest-paying open roles at Baseten

Baseten salary by department

  • epd: $248K median · $400K top base — Forward Deployed Engineer (Training) (view JD) (47 roles)
  • gtm: $203K median · $360K top base — Manager, Strategic Sales (view JD) (26 roles)
  • g&a: $203K median · $300K top base — Global Equity Programs Lead (view JD) (24 roles)

Baseten engineering & product salary by seniority

  • Mid: $248K median · $360K top base — Software Engineer - GPU Kernels (view JD) (33)
  • Senior: $248K median · $400K top base — Forward Deployed Engineer (Training) (view JD) (9)

Baseten salary by location

  • San Francisco: $240K median · $400K top base — Forward Deployed Engineer (Training) (view JD) (89 roles)
  • New York: $184K median · $330K top base — Account Executive - Enterprise (view JD) (10 roles)

Remote work at Baseten

2% of Baseten's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Baseten looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Kubernetes (18) · Python (16) · Go (8) · AWS (5) · Demand Generation (5) · PyTorch (5) · CI/CD (5) · GCP (4) · TypeScript (3) · React (3).

Benefits & perks at Baseten

Commonly listed: dental (101) · vision (101) · 401k (101) · pto (101) · parental (101).

About Baseten

Baseten is Series F stage · 101–250 employees · founded 2019 · HQ San Francisco, California. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Baseten

Roles typically ask for around 5 years of experience (up to 10+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 14 that do, Bachelor's and PhD and Master's are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 99% of these postings reference equity (rsu). Equity is not included in the medians above.

Baseten hiring activity

Baseten has 101 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 101 public job postings with disclosed pay. 19 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (57 in the last 90).

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Common questions

What does Baseten pay?
The median pay is $230K, with a typical range of $195K–$248K, based on 101 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Baseten?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Forward Deployed Engineer (Training), at $200K–$400K base.

Which team pays the most at Baseten?
The epd team, at a $248K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 101 public Baseten job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed October 24, 2026.

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