Lilt
Senior Technical Program Manager, Applied AI
$143K–$178K
Boston, MA +4 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Denver, CO
Seattle, WA
USA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 10+ years of industry experience with a B.S. or M.S.; alternatively, 5+ years in a high-growth AI/Engineering environment with a Ph.D.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, AI, or a related technical field; alternatively, a Ph.D.
- Visa sponsorship
- Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.
About the job
Leads technical programs and data-delivery operations for frontier AI labs, developing benchmark workflows and ensuring high-quality datasets for LLMs and multimodal models.
What you'll do
- Propose and co-develop benchmarks with research lab partners, aligning deliverables with research objectives.
- Manage end-to-end programs delivering large-scale datasets and engineering milestones; oversee pipelines across text, image, video, and audio.
- Coordinate research, engineering, and production teams to implement automated and human-in-the-loop quality control.
What they ask for
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, AI, or a related technical field, with 10+ years of industry experience; alternatively, a Ph.D. with 5+ years of experience in a high-growth AI/Engineering environment.
- Experience founding or scaling a venture, or working in an early-stage startup while driving business growth and strategic initiatives.
- Proven experience managing data pipelines for LLMs or multimodal models, with understanding of training, inference, and multilingual and multi-domain data diversity.
- Experience managing high-throughput programs where quality control is mission-critical, including automated validation at scale.
Nice to have
- Fluency in multiple human languages.
- Python and modern AI frameworks such as PyTorch or LangChain.
Pay
$142.8K – $178.5K (base salary; currency not specified)
Tools
LLMs, PyTorch, LangChain, Python
AI focus
Leads programs and data workflows that support training LLMs and multimodal models, including benchmark development and data quality control.
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