Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $164,000 |
| Median | $191,000 |
| 75th percentile | $226,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $565,000 |
| Listings counted | 614 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 176 | $184,000 |
| Lead | 9 | $204,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 574 | $193,000 | $164,000 to $228,000 |
| Canada | USD | 13 | $157,000 | $150,000 to $191,000 |
The Model Performance organization at Baseten is looking to hire our first Technical Program Manager. This is a zero-to-one role in a team that is responsible for building the core algorithms and methods that power Baseten’s high performance inference stack.
At Baseten, we’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive our most complex, cross-cutting infrastructure programs. This role will operate across all domains of AI infrastructure, from the GPUs up to the multi-cluster orchestration layer. This is an execution-first role.
Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models. We work across research, engineering, product, and policy to understand risks, develop and validate safeguards, and support responsible deployment.
Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society.
The Frontier Assurance team brings independent scrutiny into OpenAI’s safety decisions and helps the public understand and assess our safety work.
We bring together technical evidence, policy, and operational perspectives to help the company address emerging risks, resolve difficult questions, and make well-supported decisions.
We work alongside teams developing our core models, helping turn ambitious research goals into coordinated execution across model training, alignment and safety, and research infrastructure.
As a Research Program Manager (RPM) in the Human Data team you will partner with research and engineering to design and implement pragmatic solutions for collecting high-quality data.
Partner deeply with research: Work with researchers to scope data needs, define success criteria, and translate priorities into clear execution plans.
OpenAI · 9mo ago
The Human Data team at OpenAI is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks in advanced AI systems by designing evaluations, surfacing vulnerabilities, and collaborating closely with researchers to strengthen model reliability and public trust.
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.
Define and manage program schedules, deliverables, and turning points aligned with customers and partners roadmaps and requirements.
Own program outcomes end-to-end — define and manage schedules, surface dependencies before they block work, and drive multi-functional alignment from architecture review through tape-out and bring-up; you’re accountable for delivery , not only oversight.
Own the delivery roadmap and health of all autonomy software programs, keeping execution aligned with the various vehicle programs and customer timelines. Lead and grow a team of experienced TPMs, hiring outstanding talent and guiding each person's professional development.
NVIDIA is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to partner with Production Engineering and drive execution across critical DGX Cloud initiatives.
Work together with infrastructure and platform leaders to drive forward strategic technical programs across cloud infrastructure and platform software.
Drive complex technical programs focused on infrastructure operations, service health, operational readiness, and platform reliability. Partner with engineering, operations, and reliability teams to improve infrastructure visibility and accelerate issue resolution.
As a Program Manager, Executive Briefings, you will run the program at one of our briefing centers and help build the global operating model that ensures an exceptional and consistent experience across the globe.
Shield AI is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead execution within the XBAT organization.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
The Principal, Program Manager Source to Pay - AI Workflow leads the AI Workflow Tower within Micron’s S2P transformation and owns the future-state design and end-to-end execution of AI-first, agentic workflows that are central to the company’s procurement transformation…
Support core GTM leadership by managing Reddit's largest OPEX planning cycles, overseeing complex roadmaps, and ensuring decision-ready documents are prepared for monthly engagements with executive leadership, including the CRO and COO. Own the end-to-end processes.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager based in the United States. This is a senior technical program leadership opportunity focused on driving complex, strategic initiatives across multiple engineering teams and organizations.
Sony Interactive Entertainment · 8d ago
Technical Program Management. • Lead large, strategic technical programs spanning multiple engineering teams, organizations, technologies, or geographies, with accountability for end-to-end outcomes.
The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products.
The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products.
As we scale, securing our infrastructure, protecting sensitive data, supporting employees’ velocity, and meeting global compliance standards are essential to our success and societal impact.
GenAI platform development: Drive major initiatives to build and evolve Visa’s centralized inference platform. Work across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and platform consumers to translate platform needs into clear, executable programs.
Lead complex, multi-workstream programs across ML research, platform engineering, infrastructure, safety/compliance, and product, aligned under one roadmap, metrics, and governance.
Lead strategic Security programs that are complex, ambiguous, and multi-org in nature, with direct ownership of execution across planning, dependency management, decision-making, communications, and outcomes.
Suno is looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to help us scale our technical programs and launches - coordinating across engineering, product, and other functions to land some of our largest initiatives.
Operational Rigor & Technical Execution. Keep the Trains Running on Time: Own the end-to-end execution of major initiatives under the CPO's umbrella, ensuring critical product, design, and engineering milestones are hit without friction.
The Deployment TPM owns the last mile of every deployment: the point where a validated cluster becomes a service that Nscale operates and the customer runs on. You make sure nothing reaches the customer or the operations team half-built, undocumented or unsupported.
The Business Resilience helps ensure that critical products, services, operations, and supporting technology can continue through disruption and recover within expected timeframes.
Own audit and governance across all IT. Own the audit and governance program across all IT applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and supporting systems.
The Azure HPC & AI Infrastructure team defines and delivers the systems that power some of the world’s largest AI training and inference workloads.
We are now developing the next generation of the PCU from an early, clean-sheet design phase, and we are looking for a deeply experienced Technical Program Manager to lead it end-to-end — from early architecture and design through validation, integration, and production.
As Sierra’s founding Technical Program Manager for Enterprise Cloud Deployments, you’ll help define how we bring our AI platform into the cloud environments of some of the world’s largest and most regulated enterprises.
The Program Management Office (PMO) at Zoox is responsible for driving cross-functional program planning and execution at the highest level.
Technical Program Manager for Robot Platform on PMO is a seasoned program management expert and cross-functional leader that will be responsible for strategic planning and execution of technical and integrated product milestones for our vehicle platforms on our path to launch.
The Program Management Office (PMO) at Zoox is responsible for driving cross-functional program planning and execution at the highest level.
As a technical program manager, you will work cross-functionally with engineering leaders across software, hardware, vehicle engineering, and product to drive our corporate strategy into tactical and detailed road maps that facilitate effective execution at each stage of our…
We’re seeking an experienced Senior Privacy Program Manager to join Toast’s Legal & Compliance team who will play a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining a world-class privacy program.
Develop department-level priorities and strategy across strategic product initiatives by understanding our customers and technology deeply.
Shield AI · 1mo ago
We are seeking an experienced Air Vehicle Systems Technical Program Manager to help drive execution across the air vehicle systems design team.
Our work spans software, infrastructure, hardware, professional and managed services, vendor-provided workforces, data, and research.
As a Program Manager on Anthropic's Safeguards team, you'll help make sure we meet our obligations under AI safety laws and regulations around the world. Working closely with Legal, you'll turn new and emerging requirements into programs, controls, and deliverables.
As that workforce scales across a widening range of harm areas, the programs that bring people in, give them the right access, and roll them off cleanly have to keep pace. As Program Manager for Safeguards Workforce Operations, you’ll own those programs end to end.
OpenAI · 2mo ago
Infrastructure Operations works across facilities, hardware, network operations, incident management, data center engineering, delivery teams, and external partners to bring capacity online safely, understand its operational state, and improve it over time.
The median Program Manager salary in our $100k+ listings is $191,000 a year, based on 614 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $164,000 to $226,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Program Manager roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Program Manager listings range from $100,000 to $565,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $164,000 and the 75th percentile is $226,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: senior $184,000 (176 listings), lead $204,000 (9 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Program Manager listings are Anduril Industries (48 listings, median $184,000), OpenAI (45 listings, median $263,000), NVIDIA (36 listings, median $184,000), Anthropic (27 listings, median $328,000) and Zoox (24 listings, median $223,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 12, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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