LLM Safety Program Lead — AI Risk & Release

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 322,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager - LLM Safety (Finance) to lead cross-functional planning and execution for evaluation and tool use safety across Nemotron models. The role involves translating findings into mitigation plans with clear owners, dates, and success criteria.

You will establish governance for safety findings, manage multi-turn/evaluation programs, and build dashboards for executive reporting on coverage, risk, and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, product development, technical operations, or a similar area.
• Strong understanding of LLM architecture and model evaluation frameworks.
• Familiarity with LLM development, post-training, inference, tool calling, and model-release lifecycles.
• Experience directing programs related to AI/ML development, agentic safety, security, content safety, hallucinations, and production releases.
• Familiarity with AI safety risks such as hallucinations, timely injection attacks, unsafe tool use, data poisoning, model manipulation, or unintended agent behavior.
• Ability to interpret technical evaluation findings and communicate implications to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional planning and execution for evaluation identification, selection and execution focused on agentic-safety evaluations.
• Track execution, results for all evals, analysis, and mitigation plans with accountable owners and milestones.
• Lead end-to-end safety planning and execution for Nemotron models, including scope, dependencies, risks, resources, and release-readiness criteria.
• Translate technical safety priorities into executable programs covering LLM security, frontier risks, agentic safety, hallucinations.
• Establish and track multi-turn, multi-modal, multilingual, long-context, and reasoning model evaluations across use cases, domains, languages, modalities, and model releases.
• Establish governance for reviewing safety findings, severity, release impact, and risk acceptance decisions; document evidence and approvals.
• Build dashboards and executive reporting for evaluation coverage, critical findings, mitigation progress, residual risk, and release readiness.

Skills

LLM architecture

Eval planning

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager - LLM Safety (Finance) to lead cross-functional planning and execution for evaluation and tool use safety across Nemotron models. The role involves translating findings into mitigation plans with clear owners, dates, and success criteria.

You will establish governance for safety findings, manage multi-turn/evaluation programs, and build dashboards for executive reporting on coverage, risk, and release readiness.