Lightning AI
Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Delivery
$160K–$220K
New York, New York, United States +3 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
Remote
San Francisco, California, United States
Remote - Experience
- 5+ years; no large-scale GPU cluster deployment or greenfield data center build experience required.
About the job
Own defined workstreams in complex infrastructure programs, coordinating teams and delivery milestones for datacenter and AI infrastructure deployments.
What you'll do
- Manage workstream plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables; identify blockers and drive resolution.
- Coordinate execution across engineering, operations, vendors, and external partners, including hardware, network, storage, and datacenter initiatives.
- Report progress and risks, connect Jira work to delivery commitments, and improve delivery processes and documentation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, infrastructure program/project management, or similar.
- Experience driving programs in infrastructure, cloud, platform, SRE, systems, networking, hardware, or datacenter environments.
- Strong program management fundamentals, including planning, critical paths, dependencies, RAID logs, and stakeholder management.
- Ability to understand technical architecture and drive execution across multiple technical teams without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Experience with Smartsheet or Jira; hardware vendors, colocation providers, VARs, or other external partners.
- Exposure to infrastructure capacity planning, hardware lifecycle management, GPU or AI/ML infrastructure, HPC, distributed systems, or fast-moving technical companies.
Pay
$160,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Jira, Smartsheet
AI focus
The role supports compute and infrastructure programs for AI systems, including deployments and capacity growth; it does not specify AI model development.
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