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, seeks a seasoned Product Manager for the Inference Platform to shape large-scale model serving across open source and proprietary frameworks. You will define vision, translate needs into roadmaps, and partner with engineering, research, and user groups to deliver value.

This role demands deep AI/ML system knowledge, strong writing skills, and the ability to operate in ambiguity while delivering concrete product briefs and specs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience delivering complex technical products.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to write clear product documents.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Analytical thinker who breaks down complex problems and drives decisions.
• Deep familiarity with AI/ML systems and inference serving frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and strategy for inference platform capabilities and APIs.
• Translate needs into clear requirements and prioritized roadmaps.
• Collaborate with engineering, research, and user groups to drive execution.
• Own end-to-end product lifecycle for inference-related products.
• Develop understanding of inference ecosystem, model formats, and serving frameworks.
• Clarify problems, identify gaps, and propose paths forward.
• Represent user voice and ground decisions in real needs.
• Monitor developments across the inference landscape and competition.

Skills

Product management

Strategic vision

Communication

Ambiguity handling

User empathy

AI/ML systems

Inference serving

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.

#LI-Hybrid

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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