NVIDIA Corporation

Senior Product Manager - AI Inference Performance

NVIDIA Corporation$208K — $327K *
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in product management or similar experience in a technical role
  • Expertise in AI inference optimization techniques such as KV caching, quantization, and speculative decoding
  • Familiarity with inference and orchestration frameworks (e.g., TensorRT-LLM, NVIDIA Dynamo)
  • Proven ability to work autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces
  • Experience running live products including release management and quality assurance
  • Ability to translate technical capabilities into business metrics like TCO and GPU utilization
  • Relevant academic degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

  • Own the inference performance roadmap across the entire stack
  • Build platforms that generalize across model families and customer sizes
  • Define performance strategies for multi-turn workloads
  • Set framework and ecosystem strategy for NVIDIA's optimization tools
  • Establish benchmark methodologies and maintain credible performance claims
  • Oversee the day-to-day operations of the product including quality and feedback loops

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package for employees and their families
  • Opportunities for equity participation
  • Support for professional development and training
  • Access to NVIDIA's renowned workplace culture and innovative environment
Full Job Description
NVIDIA is looking for a highly technical Product Manager to own the products that help customers extract the best possible performance from AI models and applications running on NVIDIA hardware. Every inference deployment - from a single-GPU workstation to a multi-thousand-GPU data center - lives or dies on latency, efficiency, and cost per token. Your job is to make NVIDIA the obvious place to run inference by turning deep optimization techniques into products that a broad range of customers can actually adopt. The work spans the entire inference stack - optimization techniques, the frameworks that deliver them; and the benchmarking and operational tooling customers rely on to trust the results. You will translate what our best-performing internal deployments do into capabilities that ship, are detailed, and work for everyone else. The Product Management organization at NVIDIA is a small, high-leverage team driving the company's Deep Learning and Generative AI strategy. We need a self-starter who can operate with minimal direction, form a point of view from data and customer conversations, and drive it to a shipped result. If that sounds like you, we'd love to talk. What You'll Be Doing: • Own the inference performance roadmap. Set direction across the stack: how models are represented, how memory and state are managed, how requests are scheduled and served, and how tokens get generated. The techniques change fast. Judge which ones matter, then decide what we build, what we adopt, and what we retire. • Build platforms, not one-offs. Deliver capabilities that generalize across model families, deployment topologies, and customer sizes. Build for easy adoption, sane defaults, and extensibility. • Agentic and Multi-Turn Workloads: Define the performance strategy for agentic applications, where long-running sessions, tool-call stalls, and unpredictable output lengths break the assumptions built into single-turn serving. Drive capabilities around cross-turn cache reuse, request prioritization, and efficient handling of idle time in agent loops. • Framework & Ecosystem Strategy: Define how our optimizations land across TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, and NVIDIA Dynamo. Partner with open-source communities and internal engineering teams so customers get great performance on NVIDIA hardware. • Benchmarking & Performance Claims: Own how performance is measured, published, and reproduced. Define the benchmark methodology, the metrics that matter (TTFT, ITL, throughput per GPU, cost per million tokens), and the guardrails that keep our numbers credible. • Run the product day to day. Own release readiness, quality bars, regression tracking, customer blocking issues, and the feedback loop from production deployments back into the roadmap. What We Need to See: • 12+ years in product management at a technology company, or comparable time as a founder, engineering lead, or technical product owner. • Depth in AI inference optimization: KV caching and reuse, quantization, speculative decoding, disaggregated serving. Know how each one moves accuracy, latency, and cost. • Familiarity with the inference and orchestration frameworks customers use: TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, NVIDIA Dynamo, and the surrounding serving and scheduling ecosystem. • Proven track record of working independently - you can take an ambiguous problem space, define the strategy, and drive it to a shipped outcome without waiting to be told what to do next. • Operational experience running a live product: release management, quality and regression rigor, customer issues, and support processes. • Skill at translating low-level capability into business value - lower TCO, faster response, better GPU utilization - for engineers and executives alike. • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another relevant area of study (or equivalent experience). Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd: • Engineering experience with LLM inference performance: profiling, kernel-level or serving-level optimization, or building a serving stack! • Open-source contributions or product leadership in vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, or Dynamo. Production experience at scale counts too: capacity planning, autoscaling, SLA management, or stateful multi-turn applications. • A habit of reading the relevant research and translating it into roadmap decisions - you have intuition for where model architectures and serving techniques are heading next! Widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/ 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. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 17, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

About NVIDIA Corporation

Nvidia, a global leader in graphics, gaming, and AI technology, offers Nvidia careers and internship opportunities for those passionate about driving innovation in the tech industry. you'll find a company committed to growth, teamwork, and leadership in computer science and machine learning domains.

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Nvidia has cemented its reputation as a powerhouse in developing advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) and has significantly contributed to the gaming industry's evolution. Moreover, its foray into AI and machine learning has opened new frontiers in technology, making Nvidia a beacon of innovation and a desirable workplace for ambitious tech professionals.

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Interns at Nvidia enjoy a plethora of benefits, from competitive stipends to mentorship opportunities, all within an environment that values growth and learning.

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