Technical Program Management, Model Development

At Microsoft AI we build the frontier models and products that reach millions of people from pretraining through post-training evaluation and launch. Our Technical Program Managers are a centralized team embedded deeply with the research product and engineering stakeholders they support driving execution across every pillar and workstream. This role sits inside that pipeline helping turn ambitious research into shipped trusted systems.

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with deep hands-on technical program management experience to support model development at MAI. Youll partner closely with research product and applied science leads bringing enough technical fluency in model training evaluation and infrastructure to engage credibly with researchers and engineers and enough program rigor to keep complex fast-moving work on track.

What Youll Do
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.

Youll 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
We know that strong candidates come from many different backgrounds and experiences. If you are excited about the role and believe you could make an impact we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification listed below.

• 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 $165600 - $296400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220800 - $331200 per year.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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