Senior Technical Program Manager

Company: Microsoft
Location: San Jose
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Overview:We are on a mission to create the leading AI experience using the world's most capable AI frontier models enabling human level intelligence and beyond. Building this experience will require us to have a seamless platform that will span training and inference across one of the world's most foremost GPU clusters, pushing the boundaries of scale, performance, and reliability.The AI Product Acceleration team at Microsoft AI needs to track closely all aspects of infrastructure including cluster acquisition, capacity deployment, large scale GPU buildout, high-speed fabric buildout and validation, benchmarking, and performance optimizations to support and accelerate our model pre-training, post-training fine-tuning, and inferencing operations. We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists, learning from each other, and collaborating to create the best models, methods and products. We work closely with the teams that transform pre-trained models into the models that power the consumer Copilot experience.We are looking for an outstanding Member of Technical Staff, AI Product Acceleration Technical Program Manager who would be the driving force behind all the activities mentioned above, track and manage the priorities across the various engineering teams delivering both hardware capacity and software components for pretraining. The individual should be excited and proud about contributing to the next generation of systems that will transform the field. We are looking for candidates who:

• Are passionate about managing high stakes time-sensitive large-scale programs.
• Are keenly aware and able to manage timelines and schedules of mission critical cluster hardware, software and services.
• Have experience in navigating the timelines of datacenter capacity deploying thousands of GPUs and enable large-scale AI model training or inference clusters.
• Will thrive in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Have a high degree of craftsmanship and pay close attention to details.
• Demonstrate a proactive attitude and enthusiasm for exploring new methods and technologies.
• Effectively manage multiple responsibilities and can adjust to shifting priorities.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.By applying to this U.S. Mountain View, CA OR Redmond, WA position, you are required to be local to the San Francisco OR Seattle area in office 3 days a week.Responsibilities:
  • Deeply understand, track and manage the timelines of datacenter construction and bring-up.
  • Deeply understand, track and manage node, rack and cluster validation processes.
  • Hold execution-focused meetings with various stakeholders to accelerate GPU delivery timelines.
  • Track and manage the capacity deployment, validation and benchmarking of AI supercomputers.
  • Collaborate with the product team and other engineers and researchers across Microsoft and other vendors to identify gaps and drive timelines towards resolutions and mitigations.
  • Work with a cross-disciplined crew across design, research, engineering, and data analysis to deliver a high-quality product and evaluate success towards business goals.
  • Embody our and .Qualifications:Required Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
    • OR equivalent experience.
    • 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.Preferred Qualifications:
      • Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
      • OR equivalent experience.
      • 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
      • 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
      • 2+ years of tracking and managing data center bring-up.
      • 1+ years of tracking and managing capacity deployment, validation and benchmarking of GPU clusters for AI training.Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information .Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.#Copilot #MicrosoftAI
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