Product Manager, Grid

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies. The Product Manager for Grid will help build Grid, Baseten's intelligent model routing platform designed to help developers get the best possible results across open and frontier models without manually managing every decision. The role starts with coding agents, where model choice can have an enormous impact on quality, speed, and cost.

Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap for Grid, from early developer adoption to production deployments and enterprise expansion; Work with researchers and engineers to improve intelligent model selection, routing policies, fallbacks, and controls; Build evaluation frameworks that measure real-world outcomes, including task quality, completion time, latency, and total cost; Shape the developer experience for onboarding, configuration, observability, and routing decisions; Help customers understand why a model was selected and give them confidence and control over how routing behaves; Work through technical challenges involving conversation history, tool compatibility, prompt caching, retries, and routing overhead; Partner with GTM and customers to turn early pilots into sustained adoption and revenue growth

Requirements

Experience building and commercializing AI/ML products or developer platforms, with demonstrated adoption or business impact; A 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; Excellent developer product instincts, with an appreciation for both simple APIs and enterprise-level controls; Hands-on experience using coding agents and a strong point of view on where automation helps developers and where they need control; Comfort building emerging products where the technical approach and customer expectations are still evolving

Nice to have

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

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; 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