Description
At Microsoft AI, we build the frontier models and products that reach millions of people, from pretraining through post-training, evaluation, and launch.
We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with deep, hands-on technical program management experience to support model development at MAI.
As TPM, you will own end-to-end execution across the model development lifecycle, partnering with research and applied science leads to shape goals, priorities, and success metrics, and managing planning, milestones, dependencies, and risk across training, evaluation, and launch.
You’ll be the connective tissue between research, engineering, product, and safety teams, translating fast-changing research priorities into clear plans, reasoning about trade-offs in data, compute, and evaluation methodology, and surfacing risks to leadership before they become blockers.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end execution of complex technical programs across the model development lifecycle, partnering with research and applied science leads to translate research goals into clear plans, milestones, and success metrics.
- Reason about technical trade-offs in model training, evaluation, data, and infrastructure, and coordinate across research, engineering, and product to keep training and evaluation work unblocked.
- Communicate program status, risk, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and leadership, bringing lightweight structure to fast-moving, ambiguous research work.
Qualifications
- Significant experience in technical program management, with a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs, ideally spanning pretraining, post-training, or evaluation.
- Technical fluency to reason about model training, evaluation methodology, data, and infrastructure trade-offs, and engage credibly with researchers and engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment and influencing without formal authority.
Technical Program Management IC6 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year.