Strategic AI Programs Lead for FDE & Production

NVIDIA Corporation; Washington; On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the technical strategy and execution of Forward Deployed Engineering engagements across NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos. This role blends a solution architect’s depth with engagement leadership, guiding from first use‑case discussions through production deployment.

Ideal candidates bring strong technical depth, ecosystem experience, and a history of using AI agents to automate program work, delivering customer success

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years in technical program management, solutions architecture, forward deployed engineering, or technical customer delivery.
• Working knowledge of the LLM post-training lifecycle, with Python and cloud/GPU infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience using AI agents and agentic workflows to run programs, including planning, tracking, and reporting.
• Experience across open model ecosystems, post-training and harness, and cloud provider ecosystems.
• Experience shaping SOWs and agreements, working with legal and procurement, and handling data sharing and governance.
• Proven ability to manage risks, dependencies, and decisions with incomplete information.
• Clear communication of complex technical ideas to engineers and C-level executives.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for each FDE engagement and serve as the main contact for NVIDIA, the partner, and the end customer.
• Run programs with agents; automate SOWs, status updates, meeting synthesis, and risk flags; review agent outputs.
• Work with FDEs and partner engineers to understand use cases, data, evaluation, and deployment paths to scope engagements and identify risks.
• Define processes and artifacts to make engagements repeatable; develop playbooks, templates, and reusable agent workflows; manage delivery with legal and data sharing.
• Coordinate across partners, use cases, open model builders, and cloud providers to align priorities and report progress to leadership.

Skills

Program management

Cloud infrastructure

Python

Stakeholder management

Model ecosystem

Risk management

C-level communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the technical strategy and execution of Forward Deployed Engineering engagements across NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos. This role blends a solution architect’s depth with engagement leadership, guiding from first use‑case discussions through production deployment.

Ideal candidates bring strong technical depth, ecosystem experience, and a history of using AI agents to automate program work, delivering customer success