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Technical Program Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

San FranciscoFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Run priority account cadence, drive cross-team programs for largest customers, and reduce toil to protect platform time for a forward-deployed engineering team serving strategic AI inference clients.

Role type

Senior Technical Program Manager (Forward Deployed Engineering)

Builds

Operating systems and processes for a fast-growing FDE team to focus on hard inference problems

Domain

AI Infrastructure / ML Inference / Cloud Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Technical program management, cross-team coordination, incident management, stakeholder management, risk management, metrics reporting, hiring operations, technical writing

Preferred skills

ML Infra stack experience, solutions engineering, SRE, forward-deployed teams

Technologies

Kubernetes, GPUs, distributed systems, LLM inference

Responsibilities

Run priority account cadence, make bridges work between FDE, SA, Sales, Product, and engineering, drive cross-team programs, reduce toil, own metrics, help scale the team, manage risk and dependencies, communicate up down and across

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC