Senior LLM TPM - AI Platform & MLOps Lead

Sustainable Talent; California (MO); On-site; USD 272,214,000 - 358,176,000; Full time

Job summary

Sustainable Talent partners with NVIDIA to find a Senior Technical Program Manager for LLM to support the Simulation Division in Santa Clara, CA. This full‑time contract role offers competitive pay and full benefits.

You will drive cross‑functional AI initiatives, build MLOps capabilities, and manage dependencies across data, compute, and deployment pipelines to deliver production‑ready capabilities. Strong communication and planning are essential.

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

Experience leading complex cross‑func­

Communicate effectively

Strong organizational skills

AI / ML program management

Roadmap translation to milestones

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Hugging Face

Job description

Sustainable Talent partners with NVIDIA to find a Senior Technical Program Manager for LLM to support the Simulation Division in Santa Clara, CA. This full‑time contract role offers competitive pay and full benefits.

You will drive cross‑functional AI initiatives, build MLOps capabilities, and manage dependencies across data, compute, and deployment pipelines to deliver production‑ready capabilities. Strong communication and planning are essential.