Senior Product Manager, Inference Platform

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Product Manager for Inference Platform to define and drive products and platform capabilities enabling large-scale model serving across open source and proprietary models.

You will bridge AI research, infrastructure engineering, and real user needs, shaping architecture, APIs, capacity and cost management, and end-to-end product lifecycle for inference-related products. Equity and benefits are part of the package.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience delivering complex technical products.
• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to write clear product docs, specs, and strategies.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and make progress without a full playbook.
• Analytical professional who can break down complex problems and drive decisions.
• Strong user empathy and ability to synthesize signals into a user needs picture.
• Deep familiarity with AI/ML systems and inference serving frameworks, and their tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and strategy for inference platform capabilities (APIs, capacity management, cost management, performance, model serving infrastructure).
• Translate user needs and constraints into clear requirements and prioritized roadmaps.
• Partner with engineering, research, and user groups to drive execution from concept through launch.
• Own end-to-end product lifecycle for inference-related products and platform investments.
• Develop deep understanding of inference ecosystem, model formats, serving frameworks, and API formats.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Inference APIs design

Technical product management

Open source ecosystem

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

TensorRT-LLM

vLLM

Triton Inference Server

Job description

At NVIDIA, we are building the foundation & blueprints for how AI workloads are served at scale for NVIDIA employees and DSX Partners. As a Product Manager for Inference Platform, you will help define and drive the products and platform capabilities that enable large-scale models serving across a broad portfolio of models, both open source and proprietary. You will work at the intersection of AI research, infrastructure engineering, and real user needs, shaping how inference is delivered reliably, efficiently, and at scale.

This is high-impact role. You will be expected to bring structure to undefined problem spaces, make progress without complete information, and build conviction through deep engagement with users, engineers, and the broader ecosystem of AI Cloud partners. The right candidate is equally comfortable discussing model serving architecture, token economics and writing a clear product brief.

What You Will Be Doing

• Define product vision and strategy for inference platform capabilities — including APIs, capacity management, cost management, performance and optimization, and model serving infrastructure.
• Translate user needs and infrastructure constraints into clear requirements and prioritized roadmaps.
• Partner closely with engineering, research, and user groups teams to drive execution from concept through launch.
• Be responsible for end-to-end product lifecycle for inference-related products and platform investments.
• Develop deep understanding of the inference ecosystem — model formats, serving frameworks, API formats, and the tradeoffs that matter at scale.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations by framing the problem, identifying what is known and unknown, and proposing a path forward.
• Represent the voice of the user and ensure product decisions are grounded in real needs, not assumptions.
• Track and synthesize developments across the inference landscape: open source model releases, serving frameworks, competitive dynamics, and emerging use cases.

What We Need To See

• 12+ years of experience with a track record of delivering complex technical products.
• Bachelors degree or higher, or equivalent experience
• Strong written and verbal communication, you are able to write clear, concise product documents, specs, and strategies.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast paced environments and make progress without a full playbook.
• Analytical professional who can break down complex problems, identify the right questions, and drive toward decisions.
• Strong user empathy — able to synthesize qualitative and quantitative signals into a coherent picture of what users need and why.
• Deep familiarity with AI/ML systems and inference serving frameworks (such as TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, or Triton Inference Server), tradeoffs involved, and what matters to model publishers, application developers and cloud operators.
• Experience with inference APIs- design, versioning, performance, hardware efficiency, and developer experience.
• Familiarity with open source as well as commercial model ecosystems and the different considerations each brings to a serving platform.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Experience with sophisticated inference techniques: disaggregated prefill/decode, KV cache management, speculative decoding, or continuous batching.
• Background in large scale systems and developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or MLOps tooling.
• Exposure to capacity planning, quota management, or resource scheduling in large-scale compute environments.

You thrive in the early stages of building — where the problem is not fully defined, the team is still forming, and the decisions you make will shape direction for years. You don't wait for perfect information. You ask good questions, build conviction incrementally, and create momentum. You can balance user's reality and engineering constraints simultaneously. You bring clarity and cut through noise. You have a genuine curiosity about how inference works. You care about users’ needs beyond trivia, as it improves your product.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 208,000 USD - 327,750 USD for Level 5, and 240,000 USD - 379,500 USD for Level 6.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 2, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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