Infrastructure TPM — AI/Data Center Delivery

Lightning AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Meaningful Equity (RSUs)

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid work model

Two weeks winter break

Parental & family leave

Learning & development allowance

Wellness stipend

Sabbatical program after four years

In-office meals

Job summary

Lightning AI seeks a Technical Program Manager to join the Infrastructure Delivery team and drive programs across compute, network, storage, hardware, platform engineering, and data center operations.

You will work alongside Senior Infrastructure TPMs on complex datacenter deployments, taking ownership of defined workstreams while developing broader end‑to‑end infrastructure expertise. Over time, you will lead programs from readiness through compute deployment to handoff.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, infrastructure program/project management, or similar.
• Strong program management fundamentals, including project planning, milestones, critical path, dependencies, RAID logs, and stakeholder management.
• Able to understand technical architecture, requirements, and dependencies without needing to be the engineer implementing them.

Responsibilities

• Own defined infrastructure workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables within larger programs.
• Drive day-to-day execution across engineering, operations, vendors, and external partners.
• Build and maintain project plans, critical paths, dependencies, RAID, and execution status.
• Coordinate across Infrastructure Engineering, Network, DC Operations, Platform, Security, Hardware, and other teams.
• Connect engineering execution in Jira to broader infrastructure milestones and delivery commitments.
• Identify blockers and cross-functional dependencies early and drive them through resolution.
• Support hardware deployments, network and storage initiatives, datacenter expansions, migrations, and capacity growth.
• Develop enough technical depth across workstreams to ask the right questions, understand dependencies, and challenge delivery assumptions.

Skills

Program management

Infrastructure experience

Cross-functional leadership

Jira

Smartsheet

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Smartsheet

Job description

Lightning AI seeks a Technical Program Manager to join the Infrastructure Delivery team and drive programs across compute, network, storage, hardware, platform engineering, and data center operations.

You will work alongside Senior Infrastructure TPMs on complex datacenter deployments, taking ownership of defined workstreams while developing broader end‑to‑end infrastructure expertise. Over time, you will lead programs from readiness through compute deployment to handoff.