Senior TPM - LLM & AI Simulation

Sustainable Talent; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

PTO

Job summary

Sustainable Talent, partnering with NVIDIA, seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager- LLM for NVIDIA's Simulation Division in Santa Clara, CA. This is a full-time (W-2) contract role offering pay in the $95–$125/hr range plus full benefits, PTO, and a strong company culture.

You will lead cross-functional AI programs, orchestrating research, engineering, and product teams to deliver agentic AI features. Responsibilities include establishing MLOps, managing data, compute and tooling dependencies,

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading complex cross-functional software/AI programs.
• Experience with ML lifecycle: data prep, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring.
• Ability to coordinate research, engineering, and product teams.
• Strong organizational skills in ambiguous environments.
• Proven track record translating objectives into measurable milestones.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional AI initiatives across research, engineering and product teams.
• Drive MLOps capabilities for reproducible training, tracking, versioning and release automation.
• Manage model-development dependencies: datasets, compute, training infra and evaluation tooling.
• Coordinate evaluation across accuracy, latency, safety and production-readiness.
• Support speech-model development across ASR, TTS, translation, audio understanding, conversational AI.
• Provide concise program updates covering progress, risks, and resource needs.

Skills

8+ years experience

Technical program management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication with executives

Roadmap translation into execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering/data science

Job description

Sustainable Talent, partnering with NVIDIA, seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager- LLM for NVIDIA's Simulation Division in Santa Clara, CA. This is a full-time (W-2) contract role offering pay in the $95–$125/hr range plus full benefits, PTO, and a strong company culture.

You will lead cross-functional AI programs, orchestrating research, engineering, and product teams to deliver agentic AI features. Responsibilities include establishing MLOps, managing data, compute and tooling dependencies,