AI Program Manager — Cross‑Functional ML & MLOps Lead

Infobahn Softworld Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Infobahn Softworld Inc. is seeking a seasoned Technical Program Manager to guide AI-focused initiatives in the simulation products domain.

You will coordinate research, engineering, and product teams to deliver agentic AI features, manage model development, and ensure robust, production-ready capabilities across the ML lifecycle. You will drive readiness reviews, collaborate on roadmaps, and translate research concepts into practical, measurable execution plans while maintaining strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, product development, or technical operations.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional software, infrastructure, AI, or machine-learning programs.
• Working knowledge of the ML lifecycle, including data preparation, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Experience managing technical dependencies across research, engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both highly technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments.
• Experience translating technical objectives into measurable roadmaps, milestones, and execution plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional AI initiatives, coordinating between research, engineering, and product teams to deliver agentic AI features and systems.
• Drive MLOps capabilities supporting reproducible training, experiment tracking, model versioning, evaluation, release automation, and production monitoring.
• Manage model-development dependencies involving datasets, compute capacity, training infrastructure, inference platforms, and evaluation tooling.
• Coordinate evaluation across accuracy, quality, latency, robustness, reliability, safety, and production-readiness dimensions.
• Support speech-model development across areas such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, speech translation, audio understanding, and conversational AI.
• Drive readiness reviews and ensure that technical issues lead to remediation, retesting, or documented decisions.
• Collaborate with engineering on sprint planning, stand ups and sprint review and retrospective
• Work with engineering and product on shaping the roadmap and providing PORs to help with execution
• Ensure technical alignment and execution, translating research concepts into production-ready capabilities.
• Establish best practices to help improve productivity
• Manage dependencies and risks across multiple AI projects, ensuring milestones are met and resources are effectively allocated.
• Identify opportunities to improve model-development velocity, operational efficiency, and release quality.
• Provide concise program updates covering progress, risks, tradeoffs, resource needs, and decisions.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Organizational skills

Ambiguity tolerance

Roadmap execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Hugging Face

Job description

Infobahn Softworld Inc. is seeking a seasoned Technical Program Manager to guide AI-focused initiatives in the simulation products domain.

You will coordinate research, engineering, and product teams to deliver agentic AI features, manage model development, and ensure robust, production-ready capabilities across the ML lifecycle. You will drive readiness reviews, collaborate on roadmaps, and translate research concepts into practical, measurable execution plans while maintaining strong