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We build Switchyard to help agentic applications choose among models, providers, tools, reasoning strategies, and runtime configurations to improve task-level quality, cost, latency, and policy compliance without requiring teams to rewrite their agents. You will turn a fast-moving research agenda and a growing partner ecosystem into open source tools that impact model routing and adaptive inference across the industry.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nDrive Switchyard’s product strategy and roadmap. Set priorities, quality bars, and clear product outcomes together with Engineering.\nWork directly with agent harness builders, inference gateways, model serving systems, and other partners to make integrations successful and turn market feedback into stronger product capabilities.\nDefine the developer experience and product interfaces for adaptive inference.\nPartner with Research to translate advances in areas like cost and quality prediction, constrained optimization, and budget allocation into usable products and features.\nPartner with Engineering to improve reliability, usability, documentation, SDK coverage, and the customization path for production deployments.\nBuild the adoption motion with Product Marketing, Solution Architects, and GTM teams. Identify qualified workloads, guide partner pilots, and build repeatable deployment playbooks.\nEstablish the messaging and narrative for how our teams talk about model routing and adaptive inference, working together with Product Marketing.\nDefine and inspect the evidence for success. Own the outcomes.\nCoordinate across adjacent teams to build compelling joint product outcomes..\nWhat we need to see:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\n8+ years of product management or closely related experience building technical products for developers, infrastructure teams, or AI practitioners.\nA record of scaling developer or infrastructure products through a partnership motion and integrations, not only through a single first-party application.\nTechnical proficiency in LLM inference, model routing, agent runtimes, and developer APIs. Able to reason clearly about quality/cost/latency tradeoffs.\nAbility to engage mature customers and partners independently, uncover real production constraints, and guide GTM teams through complex technical adoption.\nPositive relationships with Engineering and Research teams. Ask sharp questions, convert uncertainty into decisions, and support teams without prescribing implementation.\nAn evidence-driven product approach grounded in benchmarks, evals, and explicit success criteria.\nExcellent written and verbal communication, good judgment, and the ability to align senior technical and business leaders across organizational boundaries.\nEnough technical depth to inspect APIs, traces, and benchmark results directly and earn the trust of senior researchers and engineers.\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nExperience with LLM routers, AI gateways, model serving, distributed inference, or systems that dynamically allocate test-time compute.\nExperience taking research from prototype to a reliable, adopted developer product.\nA track record with open-source communities, SDKs, platform integrations, or developer ecosystems.\nHands-on familiarity with relevant adjacent topics like agent building, eval systems, and inference optimization.\nWith highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most hard-working and dedicated people on the planet working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our Product Management teams are growing fast. If you’re a creative technologist with a genuine passion for these topics, we want to hear from you!\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 258,750 USD for Level 4, and 208,000 USD - 327,750 USD for Level 5.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\nApplications for this job will be accepted at least until October 6, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.\nNVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.\nNVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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