Technical Product Manager - Soperator (Slurm on Kubernetes)

United States Digital Space LLC; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth and learning

Flexibility and ownership

Collaborative and innovative culture

Impactful AI projects

International environment

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Technical Product Manager to own Soperator, our Slurm-on-Kubernetes control plane for GPU clusters. You will define product direction, engage ML engineers and researchers, and drive adoption of scalable infrastructure.

You will collaborate with compute, networking, storage, and observability teams to translate ML workloads into practical capabilities, measure success, and influence OSS strategy for broader community impact.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in Product Management, ML infrastructure/MLOps, distributed systems, or cloud platform engineering.
• Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or ML platforms.
• Hands‑on familiarity with large-scale ML training and orchestration tools (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes, Ray).
• Track record of shipping technically complex products with multiple engineering teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across engineering, research, and customers.
• Experience with product analytics, data-informed prioritization, and experimentation.
• High ownership, high learning velocity, and comfort operating in fast-moving AI infrastructure environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the full user journey across Soperator clusters: Slurm workflows, dashboards, alerts/notifications, node lifecycle, and training/inference capacity management.
• Define product direction end-to-end: problem discovery → solution design → delivery → adoption.
• Lead deep customer discovery through interviews, usage analytics, and workload analysis to uncover high-impact opportunities.
• Drive execution across platform teams: compute, networking, storage, observability, IAM and etc.
• Translate frontier ML and infrastructure ideas into practical product capabilities for real-world GPU clusters.
• Define success metrics, prioritize roadmap decisions with data, and ensure measurable customer/business impact.
• Lead the open-source strategy and execution for Soperator: shape public roadmap themes, prioritize OSS-facing capabilities, and ensure strong adoption in the community.

Skills

Product Management

ML infrastructure

Distributed systems

Cloud platform engineering

Slurm

Kubernetes

Ray

Strong communication

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

Ray

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Technical Product Manager to own Soperator, our Slurm-on-Kubernetes control plane for GPU clusters. You will define product direction, engage ML engineers and researchers, and drive adoption of scalable infrastructure.

You will collaborate with compute, networking, storage, and observability teams to translate ML workloads into practical capabilities, measure success, and influence OSS strategy for broader community impact.