Product Manager, Grid (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York, United States

Salary: $200K–$400K plus equity

Company

Baseten builds AI inference infrastructure and developer tooling for companies deploying cutting-edge models into production.

What you will do

• Own the Grid product roadmap from early developer adoption through production deployments and enterprise expansion.
• Improve intelligent model selection, routing policies, fallbacks, and controls with researchers and engineers.
• Build evaluation frameworks measuring task quality, completion time, latency, and total cost.
• Shape onboarding, configuration, observability, and explanations of routing decisions.
• Address technical challenges involving conversation history, tool compatibility, prompt caching, retries, and routing overhead.
• Partner with customers and go-to-market teams to convert pilots into sustained adoption and revenue growth.

Requirements

• Experience building and commercializing AI/ML products or developer platforms with demonstrated adoption or business impact.
• Technical background in software engineering, ML engineering, research, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Experience working with researchers or ML engineers on model behavior, evaluation, or learned systems in production.
• Strong understanding of AI model quality, latency, cost, and the tradeoffs involved in optimizing across them.
• Strong developer product instincts, including appreciation for simple APIs and enterprise-level controls.
• Hands-on experience using coding agents and a clear perspective on where automation helps developers and where control is needed.
• Comfort building emerging products while the technical approach and customer expectations evolve.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLM gateways, model routing, AI agents, coding harnesses, or multi-model platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
• U.S. employees and dependents receive full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible PTO and a company-wide Winter Break from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
• Paid parental leave and a fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
• Company-facilitated 401(k) for U.S. employees.
• Exposure to ML startups with learning and networking opportunities.