Technical Program Manager, Model Development (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: USD $165,600–$296,400 per year across the U.S.; USD $220,800–$331,200 per year in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.

Company

Microsoft AI builds frontier models and products serving millions of people, from pretraining through post-training, evaluation, and launch.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end execution of complex technical programs across the model development lifecycle.
• Partner with research and applied science leads to define goals, priorities, success metrics, plans, and milestones.
• Manage dependencies and risks across model training, evaluation, data, compute, and infrastructure.
• Coordinate research, engineering, product, and safety stakeholders to keep work unblocked.
• Communicate program status, risks, and technical trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership.

Requirements

• Significant experience in technical program management and delivering complex cross-functional programs, ideally spanning pretraining, post-training, or evaluation.
• Technical fluency in model training, evaluation methodology, data, and infrastructure trade-offs, with the ability to engage credibly with researchers and engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience driving alignment and influencing without formal authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Centralized Technical Program Management team embedded with research, product, and engineering stakeholders.
• Work across fast-moving, ambiguous research programs with lightweight execution structure.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and additional compensation.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
• The position will remain open for a minimum of five days.