Product Manager, Grid

The role

You will own the product roadmap for Grid, an intelligent model routing platform. You will work with engineers, researchers, and customers to build AI infrastructure that automates model selection for quality, speed, and cost.

What you will do

• Own the product roadmap for Grid from early adoption to enterprise expansion.
• Work with researchers and engineers to improve model selection, routing policies, fallbacks, and controls.
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure task quality, completion time, latency, and total cost.
• Shape the developer experience for onboarding, configuration, observability, and routing decisions.
• Help customers understand model selection and provide control over routing behavior.
• Work through technical challenges involving conversation history, tool compatibility, prompt caching, retries, and routing overhead.
• Partner with GTM and customers to turn early pilots into adoption and revenue growth.

Required qualifications

• Experience building and commercializing AI/ML products or developer platforms with demonstrated adoption or business impact.
• A technical background in software engineering, ML engineering, research, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Experience working with researchers or ML engineers on model behavior, evaluation, or learned systems in production.
• Strong understanding of AI model quality, latency, cost, and the tradeoffs involved in optimizing across them.
• Excellent developer product instincts.
• Hands-on experience using coding agents and a strong point of view on automation and control.
• Comfort building emerging products where the technical approach and customer expectations are still evolving.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLM gateways, model routing, AI agents, coding harnesses, or multi-model platforms.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents (U.S. only)
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k) (U.S. only)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for AI companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling. The company is building a new cloud for AI to make inference, training, and agent execution part of one coherent platform.