Product Manager, Inference Platform
Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (New York)$235k - $335kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Product Manager focused on production inference infrastructure at Baseten, responsible for scaling workloads, regional routing, reliability, and end-to-end ownership of platform capabilities from backend to customer-facing observability.
Responsibilities
- Own how workloads scale and where they land, from autoscaling to demand (up under load, down to zero when idle) to a single placement policy that expresses region, compliance regime, and capacity preference.
- Give compliance-bound workloads right-of-way on sensitive capacity.
- Make production inference reliable by default, so every request reaches a healthy replica and rolling deploys never drop traffic.
- Define region-aware routing, with multi-region and active-active failover as first-class policy, plus health-aware recovery from stuck or bad replicas.
- Build the release engine beneath safe rollouts: the traffic-shifting that powers canary, shadow, and A/B, along with warm-ups, drain, and probes.
- Push the cost and performance frontier for serving AI at scale across latency, throughput, uptime, and cost efficiency.
- Drive a measurable decline in MTTR through self-serve incident management.
- Set the roadmap that infrastructure and product teams build toward, and own each capability end to end, from backend behavior through the customer-facing configuration and observability surface.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in product management, including deep experience with infrastructure, distributed systems, or ML serving.
- Fluency reasoning about scaling, routing, failover, and the cost/performance frontier, at a level that earns the respect of staff engineers.
- Experience owning capabilities end to end, backend through UX, rather than a single slice.
- Track record driving cross-team roadmaps and the dependencies beneath them.
- Comfort defining a category that doesn't fully exist yet.
Skills
Required:Infrastructure product managementScaling and routingCross-team collaboration
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 (offices 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.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Baseten
Inference is everything
Effortlessly serve optimized open source & custom models on the fastest, most reliable model delivery network.
AICloud InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsInference PlatformMachine LearningModel DeploymentModel Runtimesai-infrastructure-and-development
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