Technical Program Manager – LLM, Gen AI

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Generative AI, KPIs, Large Language Models - LLMs, Leadership Skill, Machine learning techniques, Program Management, Project management, Software Development

Job Description

Who you are: The ideal candidate has led programs productionizing ML-based systems in one or several of the following fields: Web search, Deep Neural Networks, Classification Systems, Clustering, Label Propagation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Generative Models. A successful candidate will have an established background in managing programs, scaling systems with large data sets, and delivering results in a fast-paced environment. You will have a strong development background with experience in software development cycle, and in delivering large cross-functional programs. You must be comfortable dealing with high ambiguity, be analytical and possess excellent problem-solving skills as some of the problems are unique to our scale.

As a Sr. TPM in this role you will establish partnerships with other organizations across Cognite to prioritize and translate the business requirements into technical specifications. You will have end to end ownership - from defining the strategy, working with engineering to build the solution, and measuring metrics to monitoring progress on Cognite’s AI product portfolio. You will provide direct visibility to senior leadership on all aspects of your programs on a regular cadence.

The Opportunity:The scope of role for the Sr. TPM is to define strategy and drive execution of programs spanning: development of LLMs, entire lifecycle of science and engineering artifacts, fine tuning, prompt engineering, instruction tuning, reinforcement learning, optimizations and deployment of models. You will collaborate closely with a team of managers, developers, Applied Scientists to deliver solutions into production.

This position offers a unique chance to work on state-of-the-art language models and contribute to transformative research with the vision of saving lives with Industrial Data. You will be part of a dynamic team of researchers and engineers who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of machine learning and natural language understanding in the Industrial domain. Join us and make a significant impact on the future of Industrial DataOps.

What You'll Do

• Manage business and technical requirements, design, be responsible for the overall coordination, quality, productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs and goals that you lead.
• Partner with Product Management, engineers, Applied ML architects to help deliver scalable ML models, while building mechanisms to help our customers gain and apply insights, and build road maps for the projects you own.
• Track service levels and schedule adherence, and ensure the individual stakeholder teams meet and exceed their performance targets.
• Be expected to discover, define, and apply scientific, engineering, and business best practices.

Who You Are

• 3+ years of AI/ML/LLM experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience strongly preferred
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules strongly preferred
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership strongly preferred