Senior AI & LLM Program Manager - Simulation (Contract)

Sustainable Talent; California (MO); On-site; USD 131,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for its Simulation Division in Santa Clara, CA. This full-time contract role focuses on leading cross-functional AI initiatives, MLOps, and production-ready model deployment across speech and language models.

You will coordinate with research, engineering, and product teams to drive roadmaps, readiness reviews, and measurable outcomes in a fast-paced environment with strong customer impact.

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.

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for its Simulation Division in Santa Clara, CA. This full-time contract role focuses on leading cross-functional AI initiatives, MLOps, and production-ready model deployment across speech and language models.

You will coordinate with research, engineering, and product teams to drive roadmaps, readiness reviews, and measurable outcomes in a fast-paced environment with strong customer impact.