Microsoft
Technical Program Management, Model Development
$166K–$331K
Mountain View, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience requested; no number of years stated.
About the job
Owns end-to-end program execution for model development, coordinating research, engineering, product, and safety teams from planning through evaluation and launch.
What you'll do
- Translate research goals into plans, milestones, priorities, and success metrics; manage dependencies and risks.
- Coordinate training and evaluation work and reason about trade-offs in data, compute, evaluation methodology, and infrastructure.
- Communicate program status, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership.
What they ask for
- Significant experience in technical program management delivering complex, cross-functional programs.
- Technical fluency in model training, evaluation methodology, data, and infrastructure trade-offs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including driving alignment and influencing without formal authority.
Nice to have
- Experience spanning pretraining, post-training, or evaluation.
Pay
USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year (base salary); USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Program management for model development, including model training, evaluation, and launch.
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