--- title: 'Technical Product Marketing Manager at Inferact' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-product-marketing-manager-inferact-san-francisco-ts8bahbsbvv7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Technical Product Marketing Manager at Inferact - **Company:** Inferact - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inferact/d641e7fe-9202-4ac5-be76-6abd4edcc2e0 ## Job description ## Overview Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build. ## About the Role We're looking for a Technical Product Marketing Manager to own product marketing for vLLM and Inferact across launches, positioning, technical narratives, partner announcements, and sales enablement. This is a hands-on role for someone who can translate complex AI infrastructure into credible developer-facing messaging, work directly with engineers and ecosystem partners, and build repeatable launch systems that scale. You will own day-0 launch communications, product positioning, the benchmark narrative, customer proof, and the forward product marketing roadmap. 30-60-90 Day Milestones 30 Days: Outside Counsel Alignment & Contracting Intake - Become the single owner for launch communications across vLLM and Inferact, including blog, social copy, partner coordination, and the internal readiness checklist. - Ship at least two launches as primary author and publish a launch playbook that engineers and partners can follow without additional direction. - Build a competitive teardown of recent launches and use it to establish the quality bar for future launches. 60 Days: Frontier AI & Regulatory Strategy - Own positioning and messaging, including personas, competitive talk tracks, and website product pages. - Own partnership announcements with ecosystem partners such as Google, AMD, and NVIDIA from messaging through launch day. - Own the sales collateral kit and standard vLLM plus Inferact talk template, and run enablement for engineers presenting externally. - Own product messaging across vLLM and Inferact, including technical product breakdowns, benefits, customer case studies, and supporting GTM materials in close partnership with GTM teams. 90 Days: Scalable Legal Infrastructure - Present a 2027 product marketing plan covering launch tiers, the benchmark program, case study pipeline, and partner relationships. - Bring market and customer input into the product roadmap and pricing and packaging discussions. - Create a structured feedback loop between Marketing and Sales with Product and Engineering, ensuring customer, market, and GTM feedback consistently flows into product and launch decisions. - Build and operationalize a repeatable marketing process for launching vLLM and Inferact content, covering intake, messaging, review, distribution, partner amplification, and post-launch measurement. ## Skills and Qualifications Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience as an engineer or developer. - Experience owning product marketing or developer relations for open-source software, LLM infrastructure, AI infrastructure, or developer tools. - Strong product marketing fundamentals across positioning, messaging, audience definition, narrative development, launches, and practical GTM execution. - Ability to write and edit technical launch content that is credible with developers, ML engineers, and infrastructure engineers. - Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, leadership, design, sales, and external partners. - Hands-on execution mindset with the ability to build launch systems, templates, and playbooks in a fast-moving startup environment. Preferred qualifications: - Deep familiarity with AI infrastructure, model serving, vLLM, open-source infrastructure, cloud platforms, or GPU ecosystems. - Experience owning benchmark narratives, technical product pages, customer case studies, or developer-facing sales enablement. - Experience leading joint GTM with cloud providers, hardware vendors, model companies, or open-source ecosystem partners. - Track record building product marketing programs from 0 to 1 and turning reactive launch work into a proactive roadmap. Bonus points if you have: - Direct experience marketing inference, model serving, or other performance-sensitive AI infrastructure. - Experience launching open-source projects or commercial products built around an open-source ecosystem. - Ability to create lightweight technical assets, landing pages, demos, or workflows using modern AI and no-code tools. Logistics - Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site) - Compensation: Compensation determined based on background, skills, and experience. Offers include competitive base salary & meaningful equity. - Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis. - Benefits: Inferact offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits as well as 401(k) company match. ## About Inferact ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Inferact is a startup founded by the creators of vLLM, the leading open-source LLM inference engine, dedicated to making AI inference cheaper and faster at global scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $150M in seed funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with a second office in Singapore) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Simon Mo (CEO), Woosuk Kwon, Kaichao You (Chief Scientist), Roger Wang, Joseph Gonzalez, Ion Stoica ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / open-source inference engine for large language models - **Target customers**: AI labs, hyperscalers, startups, and enterprises deploying large-scale AI models (B2B, primarily technical teams) - **Mission**: Grow vLLM as the world’s AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. ## Products & Services - **vLLM (Open-Source Inference Engine)**: The core product – an open-source LLM inference engine that supports 500+ model architectures and runs on 200+ accelerator types. Inferact stewards and supercharges vLLM, with all optimizations flowing back to the community. - **Managed Inference Infrastructure (in development)**: Inferact is building infrastructure to absorb the complexity of deploying frontier models at scale, aiming to make it as simple as spinning up a serverless database. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $150M (seed round, announced 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), Redpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter Capital, Sequoia Capital, The House Fund, GC&H Investments, and others. Partnerships include NVIDIA, Red Hat, DigitalOcean, and Cohere. - **Growth Signals**: - $150M seed round – one of the largest seed rounds in AI infrastructure. - 22 employees with +27.3% monthly headcount growth. - vLLM ecosystem: 2,000+ contributors, 500+ model architectures, 200+ accelerator types. - Day-zero support for new model architectures (e.g., Cohere’s Command A+) and hardware integrations. - Active hiring with 5 open positions across inference, performance, kernel engineering, and cloud orchestration. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep ecosystem moat**: vLLM is the de facto standard open-source inference engine, with a massive community and integrations across models and hardware that took years to build. - **Founding team credibility**: Creators and core maintainers of vLLM, with experience deploying at frontier scale (research and production). - **Hardware-software co-optimization**: Positioned at the intersection of model innovation and hardware diversity, enabling day-zero compatibility and performance optimizations. - **Open-source commitment**: All improvements flow back to vLLM, ensuring community trust and rapid adoption. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Push vLLM performance further, deepen support for emerging model architectures (MoE, multimodal, agentic), expand hardware coverage (200+ accelerators), and build managed infrastructure to simplify deployment. - **Growth direction**: Close the capability gap between models and serving systems; absorb complexity so teams can focus on innovation rather than infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: High-caliber engineering team with roots in vLLM, PyTorch, and top AI labs. Emphasis on open-source contribution and cutting-edge inference research. - **Work policy**: Hybrid with a San Francisco HQ; at least one open role (Member of Technical Staff, Exceptional Generalist) is listed as Remote. - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI inference, directly impact the open-source ecosystem, and collaborate with partners like NVIDIA, Red Hat, and major AI labs. - **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on systems engineering, kernel optimization, and cloud orchestration – ideal for engineers passionate about performance and infrastructure. ## Sources 1. [inferact.ai](https://inferact.ai/) 2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inferact) 3. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/inferact) 4. [Sequoia Capital](https://sequoiacap.com/companies/inferact/) 5. 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