Senior Technical Program Manager AI Platform

Job description

Persons in these roles are expected to spend part of their time on-site in our Seattle offices and may occasionally work remotely from their home in the Greater Seattle area. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about Hybrid work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.

Our base salary range is $137,520 - $206,280, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

Who You Are:

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Horizontal Technical Program Management team, whose primary responsibility will be the AI Platform, the infrastructure and software that powers cutting-edge AI research at scale.

This is a uniquely impactful role: you’ll help shape the software infrastructure that drives state-of-the-art hardware and boundary-pushing AI workloads, working side by side with world-class researchers and AI infrastructure engineers in a tight, iterative feedback loop. Unlike many TPM roles, this position offers visibility and influence across the entire stack — from compute decisions to the researcher experience.

The AI Platform is core to Ai2’s mission: every improvement in performance, stability, usability, or scalability creates a multiplier effect across our research outputs. As a result, it’s a long-term strategic investment area for the institute, with no shortage of opportunities. For the right TPM, this means both a seat at the table for shaping the future of AI infrastructure and the chance to see your work ripple across groundbreaking research.

Who We Are:

The Horizontal Technical Program Management Team is the center of excellence for cross-functional execution; reducing management overhead, breaking down silos, and accelerating technical delivery. We envision Ai2 as an organization where seamless collaboration and operational excellence are the norm, not the exception. As a Senior TPM, you’ll embody this mission while driving AI Platform excellence, one of our most strategically critical domains. At Ai2, PMs are both product-minded and program-strong. That means you will collaboratively drive how and when the complex work gets delivered across teams and influence key product decisions by defining the why – balancing business goals, user needs, and feasibility.

Your Next Challenge:

In this role, you will:

• Drive the AI Platform program – Partner with engineering and research leadership to develop and execute against the roadmap for key internal tools and services that support LLM pretraining, large-scale inference, and petabyte scale data management.
• Gather requirements and drive stakeholder alignment–Drive internal processes for collecting requirements for a diverse set of research projects and drive the process of converting them to clear product requirements. Act as the primary liaison between research teams and engineering.
• Facilitate internal change management– Research teams depend on our software for 1k+ GPU jobs; you’ll be responsible for making sure the release process is clear, well communicated, and non-disruptive.
• Run operational reviews & reporting – Establish and maintain regular reporting mechanisms for platform and team health, including GPU budget planning, operational reviews, and team velocity tracking.
• Program leadership – Own monthly leadership reviews, ensuring leadership visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Platform evolution & researcher experience – Drive releases, optimizations, and integrations that scale adoption across researchers, engineers and external partners, while ensuring our internal tools (e.g., docs, job scheduler) are intuitive, reliable, and enhance efficiency.

What You’ll Need:

• Proven expertise: 8+ years of technical program or product management or related experience, ideally supporting platforms, infrastructure, or developer/research tools.
• Program leadership: Strong track record of leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from strategy to execution.
• Deep Technical Fluency: Expert level understanding of the computational requirements for AI research. The ability to engage with engineering and research teams on low-level requirements involving GPUs, storage, training performance, developer experience, and other platform topics. Confidently navigate conversations and translate technical needs into actionable plans.
• Operational rigor: Skilled at building and running reporting mechanisms, roadmaps, and metrics dashboards that provide transparency and accountability.
• Collaboration & communication: Excellent written and verbal skills; able to influence and align diverse stakeholders, from researchers, engineers, developers, and leadership.
• Bias for action: Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable operating in a dynamic environment where priorities evolve.
• Tact: Skilled at guiding high-stakes decisions and building alignment across diverse stakeholders.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

At Ai2, you’ll be part of a mission-driven nonprofit advancing AI for the common good. The Horizontal TPM team plays a central role in enabling research by ensuring foundational platforms are reliable, scalable, and easy to adopt. You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Shape how world-class AI research is conducted by scaling the infrastructure that supports it.
• Work across the full spectrum of AI research teams, acting as a connector and force multiplier.
• Help define the TPM discipline at Ai2, building repeatable practices and frameworks that raise the bar for execution.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

A Little More About Ai2:

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems. We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.

In addition to Ai2’s core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the Ai2 Team. Some highlights are:

• We are a learning organization– because everything Ai2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly Ai2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, Ai2 is a place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers.
• We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind.
• We value inclusion - We understand the value that people’s individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance– we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent– we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle– and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 200+ (and growing) people who work here. We do.

Ai2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links.

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at [email protected].

Benefits:

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.