Technical Program Management, Model Development Job at Microsoft, Mountain View, CA

  • Microsoft
  • Mountain View, CA

Job Description

Job ID: 200053812Posted: 2026-09-18Location: United States, California, Mountain ViewSalary: USD $165,600 - $296,400 per yearEmployment type: Full-TimeWork site: 4 days / week in-officeRole type: Individual ContributorTravel: Less than 25%Profession: Program ManagementDiscipline: Technical Program ManagementCompany: MicrosoftOverviewAt Microsoft AI, we build the frontier models and products that reach millions of people, from pretraining through post-training, evaluation, and launch. Our Technical Program Managers are a centralized team, embedded deeply with the research, product, and engineering stakeholders they support, driving execution across every pillar and workstream. This role sits inside that pipeline, helping turn ambitious research into shipped, trusted systems.We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with deep, hands-on technical program management experience to support model development at MAI. You'll partner closely with research, product, and applied science leads, bringing enough technical fluency in model training, evaluation, and infrastructure to engage credibly with researchers and engineers, and enough program rigor to keep complex, fast-moving work on track.What You'll DoAs TPM, you will own end-to-end execution across the model development lifecycle, partnering with research and applied science leads to shape goals, priorities, and success metrics, and managing planning, milestones, dependencies, and risk across training, evaluation, and launch.You'll be the connective tissue between research, engineering, product, and safety teams, translating fast-changing research priorities into clear plans, reasoning about trade-offs in data, compute, and evaluation methodology, and surfacing risks to leadership before they become blockers.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilitiesOwn end-to-end execution of complex technical programs across the model development lifecycle, partnering with research and applied science leads to translate research goals into clear plans, milestones, and success metrics.Reason about technical trade-offs in model training, evaluation, data, and infrastructure, and coordinate across research, engineering, and product to keep training and evaluation work unblocked.Communicate program status, risk, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and leadership, bringing lightweight structure to fast-moving, ambiguous research work.QualificationsQualificationsWe know that strong candidates come from many different backgrounds and experiences. If you are excited about the role and believe you could make an impact, we encourage you to apply, even if you do not meet every qualification listed below.Significant experience in technical program management, with a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs, ideally spanning pretraining, post-training, or evaluation.Technical fluency to reason about model training, evaluation methodology, data, and infrastructure trade-offs, and engage credibly with researchers and engineers.Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment and influencing without formal authority.Technical Program Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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