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Technical Program Manager

San Francisco
Salary
$130,000 - $225,000 annually
Level
Lead
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

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Open. First seen 20 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Own complex, time-sensitive data and evaluation programs for AI research teams and internal partners. This role brings together technical program management, data operations, and vendor coordination to turn evolving requirements into reliable programs that improve AI and agent evaluation.

What You'll Do

  • Manage data and evaluation programs from scoping and requirements gathering through production, quality assurance, delivery, and retrospectives.
  • Translate ambiguous technical requests into specifications with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • Improve data quality processes through quantitative metrics and qualitative review, including analysis of task coverage, difficulty, and reward distributions.
  • Manage external vendors across the delivery lifecycle and scale delivery pipelines.
  • Improve production workflows, documentation, automation, and cross-functional handoffs.
  • Partner with research, platform, and marketplace teams to turn program learnings into product improvements.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience owning complex technical programs in AI/ML, data operations, support engineering, applied research, forward-deployed engineering, or a related cross-functional field.
  • Experience turning ambiguous technical requirements into executable plans and maintaining data quality through metrics and direct inspection.
  • Strong judgment assessing dataset quality, moving between aggregate measures and individual examples.
  • Experience managing vendors, improving delivery pipelines, and documenting or automating workflows and handoffs.
  • Background supporting AI research teams, technical enterprise customers, or other teams with urgent, changing requirements.
  • Familiarity with RLHF, reinforcement-learning environments, agent evaluation, human-in-the-loop data pipelines, annotation, or expert data collection is valuable.
  • Comfort working independently in a fast-paced startup environment.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $130,000 to $225,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for strong full-time candidates.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The role is also open to remote candidates who can maintain 70% to 80% time zone overlap with San Francisco or Singapore.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 346 open in Engineering. 280 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (154 of 346), Python (146 of 346), TypeScript (144 of 346), React (117 of 346), Machine Learning (85 of 346), PostgreSQL (61 of 346), JavaScript (59 of 346)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Salary context

38 other open postings titled Technical Program Manager state a salary: median USD 139,000 to USD 200,000 a year.

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