Senior AI Programs Manager, Forward-Deployed Engagements

FDE Times; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the technical strategy and execution of forward deployed engagements across NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos. You will act as the main interface among NVIDIA, partners, and end customers, turning use cases into production deployments with strong governance and automation.

The role requires deep technical depth, ecosystem experience, and the ability to drive outcomes while leveraging AI agents to accelerate program work.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in technical program management, solutions architecture, forward deployed engineering, or technical customer delivery.
• Experience leading complex multi-party programs from proof of concept to production.
• Working knowledge of the LLM post-training lifecycle with practical depth to engage with ML engineers.
• Comfort with Python and cloud/GPU infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience using AI agents and agentic workflows to run programs.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for each FDE engagement and serve as the main contact for NVIDIA, partners, and customers.
• Automate program work, including SOWs, status updates, meeting synthesis, and risk flags; build and review agent workflows.
• Work with FDEs and partner engineers to scope engagements, understand data and evaluation approaches, and manage post-training deployment paths.
• Develop repeatable delivery playbooks, templates, and reusable agent workflows; coordinate with legal and partner teams on agreements and data sharing.
• Coordinate across partners, use cases, and cloud providers to identify NVIDIA’s value, report progress to leadership, and bring field insights back to Product, Engineering, and Research.

Skills

Technical program mgmt

Solutions architecture

Forward deployed eng

Technical customer delivery

Python

Cloud infrastructure

AI agent workflows

SOWs & agreements

Risk management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in CS/Engineering

Tools

Python

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the technical strategy and execution of forward deployed engagements across NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos. You will act as the main interface among NVIDIA, partners, and end customers, turning use cases into production deployments with strong governance and automation.

The role requires deep technical depth, ecosystem experience, and the ability to drive outcomes while leveraging AI agents to accelerate program work.