Product Manager, Inference Experience

The role

You will own the product strategy and roadmap for Baseten's inference offerings, including Model APIs, Dedicated Inference, Model Evaluations and the Model Library. You will work with engineering, research and go-to-market teams to turn inference advances into products developers use.

What you will do

• Own product strategy and roadmap across Baseten's inference offerings, focused on developer adoption and business impact
• Make it easier for developers to discover, evaluate, deploy and manage AI models through APIs, SDKs, CLI and console
• Work with inference engineers and researchers to turn technical advances into customer-facing capabilities
• Help decide which models, workloads and customer needs to prioritize
• Partner with go-to-market teams and leadership on pricing, packaging, launches and commercialization
• Spend time with developers and customers to learn what works, what frustrates them and what to build next

Required qualifications

• 10+ years building and shipping AI/ML products or platforms
• Technical background in software engineering, ML engineering, research, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Direct experience building or deploying models with technologies like PyTorch, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, NVIDIA Dynamo, or similar
• Strong understanding of model serving, GPU economics, and tradeoffs between quality, latency, throughput and cost
• Exceptional developer product instincts and ability to make complex technology approachable
• Track record of leading cross-functional product initiatives and turning technical capabilities into measurable adoption or revenue growth

Nice to have

• Experience deploying models, building infrastructure products, building ML infrastructure, or designing tools used from a terminal and a console
• Past experience as a software developer

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including company-wide Winter Break (offices closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, with learning and networking opportunities

Before you apply

• Baseten will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance where applicable

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for AI companies such as Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners and Spark Capital.