Senior Product Manager, Agent Optimization - United States
$208,000 - $379,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading the applied research-to-product pipeline for agent optimization. You will manage research and early partner collaborations into open source tools for diagnosing, evaluating, and improving agents.
What you'll do
- Drive product strategy and roadmaps for specific projects, setting priorities and product outcomes.
- Work with agent builders, observability, and eval tool providers to secure early-access engagements and gather market feedback.
- Translate new findings and techniques into usable products and features with engineering and research teams.
- Define developer experience and product interfaces for open source tools.
- Partner with product marketing, solution architects, and GTM teams to build adoption motions.
- Define and inspect evidence for success across research results, product results, partner outcomes, and open source adoption.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of product management or closely related experience building technically sophisticated AI or developer products.
- Record of turning ambiguous research or emerging technical capabilities into adopted products through partnerships, integrations, or open source.
- Technical fluency in agent architectures, observability, evaluation design, and automated experimentation techniques.
- Ability to engage customers and ecosystem partners independently, recruit design partners, and uncover production constraints.
- An evidence-driven product approach grounded in reproducible benchmarks and explicit success criteria.
Skills: Product Manager, product strategy and roadmaps, agent optimization, AI research-to-product, eval systems, open source tools
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 39-day median for Product Management roles.
Product Management · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
68
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Median days open
39 d
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Median salary
$248k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (68 roles · 21 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 19 | 68 |
| Median days open | 39 d | 39 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $248k |
Skills observed across this category: Product Manager, product strategy and roadmaps, agent optimization, AI research-to-product, eval systems, open source tools
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 39 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 37 d
- Micron Technology · 5 open roles · median 51 d
- Analog Devices · 3 open roles · median 22 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 3 open roles · median 4 d
How we counted: 68 open Product Management (AI ML Hardware) roles from 21 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 4 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.