Drimva

NVIDIA

Senior Technical Program Manager - LLM Safety

$168K–$322K

US, CA, Santa Clara · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026

Experience
10+ years in technical program management, engineering, product development, technical operations, or a similar area.
Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related technical field.

About the job

Leads safety evaluation and release-readiness programs for Nemotron models, translating evaluation findings into mitigation plans and executive reporting.

What you'll do

  • Plan and execute cross-functional agentic-safety and other model evaluations; track findings and mitigation progress.
  • Manage end-to-end safety programs, including scope, dependencies, risks, resources, governance, and release readiness.
  • Build dashboards and executive reporting on evaluation coverage, critical findings, residual risk, and release readiness.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related technical field.
  • Strong understanding of LLM architecture, frameworks, and model evaluation.
  • Familiarity with LLM development, post-training, inference, tool calling, evaluation datasets, and model-release lifecycles.
  • Experience directing AI/ML programs and supporting model-safety evaluations, Red Teaming, adversarial testing, security assessments, or responsible-AI programs.

Nice to have

  • Experience defining evaluation datasets, rubrics, benchmarks, and release gates.
  • Experience crafting or operationalizing multi-turn, hallucination, adversarial, or agentic-safety evaluations.

Pay

168,000 USD - 258,750 USD base salary (Level 4); 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD base salary (Level 5)

Tools

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face

AI focus

Coordinates LLM safety evaluations and mitigations, with emphasis on agentic safety, security, hallucinations, and release risk.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)