Senior Technical Program Manager - AI Platform at The Allen Institute for AI

Seattle, Washington, United States

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$137,520 – $206,280Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, AI ResearchIndustries

Requirements

  • 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 programs

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

Technical Program Management
AI Platform
Infrastructure
Scalability
Performance Optimization
Cross-functional Execution
AI Research
Compute Infrastructure

The Allen Institute for AI

Advances AI through research and engineering

About The Allen Institute for AI

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) focuses on advancing artificial intelligence through research and engineering. It develops technologies that improve machine reasoning, common sense for AI, and language modeling. AI2 works on various projects, such as AllenNLP for natural language processing and EarthRanger for environmental monitoring. Unlike for-profit companies, AI2 operates as a non-profit, relying on grants and donations to fund its initiatives. This allows them to provide their research and tools to the public for free, promoting collaboration in the AI field. The goal of AI2 is to tackle significant scientific and engineering challenges to benefit society.

Seattle, WashingtonHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
N/ACompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Medical
401(k)
Visa Sponsorship
Time off
Catered meals & free snacks
Training & development
Tuition reimbursement
Remote & hybrid work options

Risks

Competition from OpenAI's QwQ-32B model may reduce AI2's market influence.
AI2's reliance on grants poses financial risks during economic downturns.
Open-source models may face intellectual property risks and misuse.

Differentiation

AI2 focuses on open-source models, promoting transparency and collaboration in AI development.
AI2's projects like AllenNLP and Semantic Scholar address diverse scientific and societal challenges.
AI2 operates as a non-profit, relying on grants and donations for funding.

Upsides

AI2's open-source models attract researchers, enhancing collaboration and innovation.
Tülu3 and OLMo-2 models position AI2 as leaders in open-source AI.
AI2's multimodal models meet the demand for integrated data processing in various fields.

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