Product Manager, Inference Experience

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity & compensation

US medical/dental/vision coverage for

Flexible PTO including Winter Break

Paid parental leave

Fertility & family-building stipend

401(k) plan

Exposure to ML startups & networking

Job summary

Baseten is hiring a Product Manager to own the experience of building on Baseten, from discovering and evaluating models to deploying, optimizing, and operating them in production.

You will shape products including Model APIs, Dedicated Inference, Model Evaluations, and our Model Library, collaborating with engineering, research, and GTM to deliver outcomes developers love and businesses rely on.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and shipping AI/ML products or platforms.
• A technical background in software engineering, ML engineering, research, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Direct experience building or deploying models using technologies like PyTorch, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, NVIDIA Dynamo, or similar frameworks.
• Strong understanding of model serving, GPU economics, and the tradeoffs between quality, latency, throughput, and cost.
• Exceptional developer product instincts. You know how to make complex technology approachable without sacrificing power.
• A track record of leading cross-functional product initiatives and turning technical capabilities into measurable adoption or revenue growth.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap across Baseten's inference offerings, with a focus on developer adoption and business impact.
• Make it easier for developers to discover, evaluate, deploy, and manage AI models through our APIs, SDKs, CLI, and console.
• Work with inference engineers and researchers to turn technical advances into compelling customer-facing capabilities.
• Help determine which models, workloads, and customer needs we prioritize.
• Partner with GTM and leadership on pricing, packaging, launches, and commercialization.
• Spend time with developers and customers to understand what's working, what's frustrating, and what we should build next.

Skills

AI/ML product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical background

Developer empathy

Product strategy

Tools

PyTorch

TensorRT-LLM

vLLM

SGLang

NVIDIA Dynamo

Job description

ABOUT BASETEN

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products.

PRODUCT AT BASETEN

Baseten is building a new cloud for AI. Our ambition is to make inference, training, and agent execution part of one coherent platform, and to shape how the next generation of AI products gets built. Product decisions here reach from the economics of GPU infrastructure to the abstractions developers build on every day.

We're hiring builders and tastemakers with the ambition to help create that future. You should bring a strong point of view about what should exist, the taste to make complex technology feel simple, and the technical judgment to build it alongside engineers, researchers, and designers. You'll work directly with customers and forward deployed teams, turn emerging capabilities into new possibilities for developers, and carry an idea from early conviction through to production and adoption.

THE ROLE

Make world-class AI inference feel effortless for developers.

Building with AI models should be easy. Getting them into production, understanding their performance, and scaling them reliably is anything but. At Baseten, we're changing that.

We're looking for a Product Manager to own the experience of building on Baseten, from discovering and evaluating models to deploying, optimizing, and operating them in production.

You’ll help shape some of our most important products, including Model APIs, Dedicated Inference, Model Evaluations, and our Model Library. You'll work closely with engineering, research, and GTM to turn breakthroughs in inference performance into products that developers love and businesses depend on.

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of AI infrastructure, developer experience, and product strategy.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own product strategy and roadmap across Baseten's inference offerings, with a focus on developer adoption and business impact

• Make it easier for developers to discover, evaluate, deploy, and manage AI models through our APIs, SDKs, CLI, and console

• Work with inference engineers and researchers to turn technical advances into compelling customer-facing capabilities

• Help determine which models, workloads, and customer needs we prioritize

• Partner with GTM and leadership on pricing, packaging, launches, and commercialization

• Spend time with developers and customers to understand what's working, what's frustrating, and what we should build next

REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years building and shipping AI/ML products or platforms

• A technical background in software engineering, ML engineering, research, or equivalent hands-on experience

• Direct experience building or deploying models using technologies like PyTorch, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, NVIDIA Dynamo, or similar frameworks

• Strong understanding of model serving, GPU economics, and the tradeoffs between quality, latency, throughput, and cost

• Exceptional developer product instincts. You know how to make complex technology approachable without sacrificing power

• A 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 both a terminal and a console

• Past experience as a software developer

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Developers choose Baseten for a clear, compelling inference experience, from discovering a model to operating it at scale. Model APIs and Dedicated Inference offer clear paths that fit different workloads. Developers can move from a model to a repeatable production workflow with less assistance. Evaluation, artifacts, and releases fit together, and the experience makes customers more confident shipping their next model change. Engineering advances reach customers through successful launches and sustained production use.

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 (our offices are 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, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable).