Senior Technical Program Manager AI Platform

Persons in these roles are expected to spend at least 3 days per week 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 $137520 - $206280 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 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: youll 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 Ai2s mission: every improvement in performance stability usability or scalability creates a multiplier effect across our research outputs. As a result its 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 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 youll 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; youll 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.

What Youll Need:

• Proven expertise: Bachelors degree in a related field plus 8 years of relevant technical program or product management experience (ideally supporting platforms infrastructure or developer/research tools). Additional relevant work experience may substitute for a degree.
• 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.

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.

Why Youll Love Working Here:

At Ai2 youll be part of a mission-driven nonprofit advancing AI for the common good. The TPM team plays a central role in enabling research by ensuring foundational platforms are reliable scalable and easy to adopt. Youll 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.

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 worlds 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 Ai2s 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 peoples 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

Benefits:

• Team members and their families are covered by medical dental vision and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in 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 companys 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.