Technical Program Manager, Data Collection and Model Evaluation (Fixed-Term Contract), DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of experience in technical program management, data operations, or AI/ML program management.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical, quantitative, or operational field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads end-to-end data collection and model evaluation programs, coordinating research, engineering, vendors, and raters to deliver high-quality multimodal datasets.
What you'll do
- Manage human data collection and model evaluation programs from requirements through final handoff.
- Translate research goals into data specifications, annotation guidelines, and evaluation rubrics, and coordinate technical dependencies and platform migrations.
- Oversee vendors, rater pools, quality audits, operational metrics, schedules, and communication of risks and progress.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical, quantitative, or operational field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in technical program management, data operations, or AI/ML program management.
Nice to have
- Experience managing human data collection, annotation, and evaluation pipelines for foundation models.
- Experience with vendors, annotation platforms, SQL, Python, dashboards, and cross-functional multimodal data workflows.
Pay
$163000 - $236000 USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python
AI focus
Supports pre-training and fine-tuning data programs and model evaluation for next-generation models, including multimodal datasets and benchmark evaluations.
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