Senior Technical Program Manager - Nemotron - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 13 October 2026 by the employer.
Join the Nemotron Edge PMO organization to oversee massive-scale dataset management.
About the role
This role involves managing the collection, curation, and release of massive-scale datasets for the Nemotron Edge PMO organization. The Technical Program Manager will build the data foundation that enables NVIDIA’s models to excel in enterprise and agentic AI, delivering language understanding and synthetic data generation optimized for NVIDIA infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Drive execution for sourcing, curating, and maintaining high-quality data used to train and evaluate Robotics/LLM programs.
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard external data/annotation vendors aligned with LLM use cases, quality needs, and compliance constraints.
- Negotiate contracts, pricing, SLAs, and KPIs with vendors; track performance and drive continuous improvement and cost efficiency.
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, and Security to ensure data contracts, access, and usage comply with regulatory and internal policies.
- Monitor data quality, vendor throughput, turnaround time, and budget utilization through dashboards and reporting.
- Create and maintain documentation, playbooks, and processes for repeatable, scalable LLM data and vendor operations.
What you'll need
- 6+ years of experience in data operations, vendor management, or technical program management.
- Experience supporting AI/ML or LLM initiatives.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Exceptional skills in prioritizing and building alignment.
- Consistent track record of leading and successfully delivering medium to large organizational-wide programs and projects.
- Experience with AI/ML data vendors (annotation, eval, labeling platforms).
- Comfort working with research teams who have fast-changing requirements.
Skills: data operations, vendor management, AI/ML, LLM initiatives, data governance
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 69-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
65
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Median days open
69 d
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Median salary
$245k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (65 roles · 18 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 65 |
| Median days open | 78 d | 69 d (+9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $245k |
Skills observed across this category: data operations, vendor management, AI/ML, LLM initiatives, data governance
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 16 open roles · median 80 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 18 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 74 d
- AMD · 7 open roles · median 56 d
- Lam Research · 4 open roles · median 66 d
- Tenstorrent · 4 open roles · median 64 d
How we counted: 65 open Technical Program Management (AI ML Hardware) roles from 18 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.