Senior Al Product Director

Tensordyne•Sunnyvale, CA

6d•Remote

About The Position

Tensordyne is seeking an experienced Senior Director of Technical Product Management who is passionate and deeply knowledgeable about AI inference compute in datacenters, across the entire stack (silicon, hardware and software). This role reports to the VP of Product Management and will focus on AI compute product efforts that will define the future of inference at Tensordyne's customers. The successful candidate will have a strong engineering background, enabling a profound technical understanding of the product, along with experience in product management, business development, and excellent communication and networking skills. Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems, enabling multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale for hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers.

Requirements

Deep understanding of the execution flow of modern AI inference systems, particularly large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, and world models.
Strong knowledge of AI inference architectures, including: Key-Value (KV) cache management and optimization, AI inference server architectures, Multi-user and multi-agent inference scheduling, Parallelization techniques (tensor, pipeline, expert, and data parallelism), Compute disaggregation and resource orchestration, Modern AI inference system KPIs, performance metrics, Pareto optimization, and efficiency trade-offs, Prefill vs. Decode design trade-offs (from silicon to business model).
Comprehensive understanding of AI compute infrastructure, including: Silicon architectures and accelerator technologies, Hardware performance characteristics and architectural trade-offs, System architecture and rack-scale design, High-performance networking topologies, Optical interconnects and next-generation data center infrastructure.
Strong understanding of AI software stacks, including AI model compilers, runtime environments, and inference optimization frameworks.
Demonstrated ability to connect low-level hardware capabilities with system-level performance and customer business outcomes.
Strong techno-economic understanding of AI compute platforms, including: Cost-performance optimization, Infrastructure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Performance-per-dollar analysis, Energy efficiency and utilization metrics, Business models supporting large-scale AI inference deployments.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into compelling customer value propositions.
Understanding of commercial drivers influencing enterprise AI infrastructure purchasing decisions.
Proven ability to define and execute product strategy for complex technical products.
Experience developing product roadmaps informed by customer requirements, competitive analysis, and technology trends.
Strong systems-thinking approach with the ability to evaluate trade-offs across hardware, software, infrastructure, performance, and economics.
Highly structured and organized approach to product planning, prioritization, execution, and cross-functional coordination.
Experience managing highly technical products throughout the product lifecycle.
BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field.

Responsibilities

Leading the definition of Tensordyne's next generation of AI inference compute products, with an innovative yet pragmatic and well-communicated technology roadmap.
Shaping the company’s Go-To-Market strategy.
Engaging with external technology partners, customers, AI industry researchers, and internal engineering & business stakeholders to coalesce insights and requirements into winning AI product plans and strategies.
Researching, defining, and driving essential competitive analysis, key metrics tracking, cost modeling, customer demos, and product release schedules to ensure Tensordyne's superiority to alternative solutions.
Overseeing and ensuring the success of key customers' projects, anticipating their software and hardware needs, while reacting as necessary to pertinent feedback.
Working hand-in-hand with marketing to design marketing campaigns with the goal of promoting Tensordyne's AI technology, products and demonstrating thought leadership.
Occasional external spokesperson (conferences etc.).