Technical Program Manager Director Pre-Training Agents Lead
Technical Program Manager Director Pre-Training Agents Lead
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About us
Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanitys most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind were a team of scientists engineers machine learning experts and more working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery and collaborate with others on critical challenges ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.
Snapshot
The Gemini program encompasses a wide range of initiatives pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities. This includes: pretraining of a diverse range of models (largescale efficient ondevice and opensource); and the development of sophisticated agents that can interact with the world and perform complex tasks. The teams work is critical for powering various Gemini applications and contributing to the broader AI community. Due to the high computational cost complex dependencies and the strategic importance of these initiatives meticulous planning and crossfunctional collaboration are paramount. As the Senior Technical Program Manager (Director level) you will lead a team of TPMs and be responsible for the overall success of Geminis Pretraining and Agents programs.
The role
As the Senior Technical Program Manager (Director level) for Gemini Pretraining and Agents you will lead and manage a team of Technical Program Managers overseeing the planning and delivery of all pretraining and agent development initiatives. This includes pretraining of largescale models ondevice small models and models intended for opensource release as well as all aspects of agent development.
You will be responsible for defining the overall program strategy developing roadmaps managing dependencies across multiple teams (including research engineering product legal and communications) and ensuring the efficient and timely delivery of highquality pretrained models and agent capabilities.
This role requires a deep technical understanding of machine learning model training techniques (including those specific to ondevice and opensource contexts) agentbased systems exceptional leadership and organizational skills and the ability to influence and drive alignment across diverse teams within Google DeepMind and potentially with external partners. You will be a key strategic partner to leadership across multiple areas.
Key responsibilities
- Program Leadership & Strategy: Lead the overall Gemini programs for Pretraining and Agents defining the program strategy goals and roadmap for all areas. This includes pretraining across largescale ondevice and opensource models and the development of agents. Ensure alignment between these programs and with overall Gemini objectives.
- Team Leadership & Management: Lead manage and mentor a team of Technical Program Managers responsible for their performance professional development and overall team success. This team will likely have TPMs focused on different areas (pretraining with different model types and agents).
- Program Planning & : Oversee the planning and delivery of all initiatives including: largescale model pretraining; ondevice small model pretraining; pretraining of models for opensource release; and agent development projects. Ensure all are completed on time within budget and to the required quality standards.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate programlevel risks across all areas anticipating potential roadblocks and developing contingency plans.
- Process Improvement & Automation: Drive the development and implementation of repeatable processes and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and scalability across all program areas.
- CrossFunctional Collaboration: Partner closely with research scientists engineers product managers infrastructure teams legal and communications across all program areas to ensure alignment on goals priorities and dependencies. Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across all involved teams including potential external partners for opensource initiatives.
- Resource Management & Optimization: Oversee the allocation and utilization of resources (compute personnel budget) across all program initiatives ensuring efficient use and minimizing waste.
- Stakeholder Management: Provide regular updates to senior leadership on program progress risks and key decisions for all areas.
- Documentation: Ensure comprehensive documentation of processes plans and program status for all areas.
- Program Closure: Make strategic decisions regarding program continuation or closure (for all initiatives) based on viability and alignment with GDM objectives.
- Team Support: Foster a culture of collaboration knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the TPM team.
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Senior Technical Program Manager at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.
- Extensive experience as a Technical Program Manager Director with a proven track record of successfully leading and delivering complex largescale programs at an executive level.
- Proven and extensive experience leading and managing a team of technical professionals including performance management and career development.
- Deep technical understanding of machine learning principles and practices particularly in the area of model pretraining. Strong understanding of techniques and considerations specific to training large models ondevice models and models for opensource release is highly desirable. Strong understanding of agentbased systems and related technologies is also highly desirable.
- Extensive experience with managing largescale compute resources and optimizing resource utilization. Experience managing programs with diverse resource needs (e.g. highperformance computing for large models specialized hardware for ondevice models) is a plus.
- Exceptional communication interpersonal and presentation skills. Able to influence and drive alignment across diverse teams and at all levels of the organization including external partners.
- Superior organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to thrive in a fastpaced dynamic environment and make strategic decisions under uncertainty.
- Proven ability to proactively identify analyze and solve complex problems.
In addition the following would be an advantage:
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- Experience working with large models and pretraining techniques. Experience with ondevice model pretraining and optimization. Experience with opensource software development and community management. Experience with agent development reinforcement learning or related fields.
- Experience with computing platforms (e.g. Google Cloud Platform).
- Familiarity with automation tools and scripting languages (e.g. Python).
- Experience with different project management approaches and a demonstrated ability to adapt to evolving project requirements.
Application deadline: 12pm GMT Thursday 4th April 2024
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
