Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $184,000 |
| Median | $213,000 |
| 75th percentile | $248,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $565,000 |
| Listings counted | 314 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 92 | $195,000 |
| Lead | 6 | $209,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 296 | $213,000 | $184,000 to $248,000 |
| Canada | USD | 5 | $219,000 | $168,000 to $219,000 |
Lead complex, cross-functional technical programs from planning through delivery, aligning engineering, product, and business stakeholders around measurable outcomes.
Lead increasingly complex technical projects across multiple teams, systems, and organizational boundaries. Translate business objectives into project goals, requirements, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
That includes datacenter operations, capacity planning across cloud providers and our own facilities, accelerator cluster management, production serving infrastructure, developer tooling, data pipelines, and networking.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
OpenAI · 2mo ago
These systems underpin data ingestion and processing, durable persistence, indexing and retrieval, and product file experiences.
The Strategic Initiatives & Operations team is in need of a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to streamline our processes, including full safety governance and integration of various safety research and mitigations into our ChatGPT, API, and any frontier models.
The Applied team safely brings OpenAI’s technology to the world, powering products like ChatGPT, and the APIs for GPT and more. Behind these products is a complex and rapidly evolving infrastructure platform that enables scale, performance, and safety.
The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base.
OpenAI · 2mo ago
The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base.
Safely delivering increasingly capable AI systems requires scalable technical safeguards, clear ownership of emerging risks, rigorous deployment readiness, and close coordination across research, engineering, product, operations, legal, policy, and external partners.
The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base.
The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base.
We are hiring a Technical Program Manager to lead high priority safety and security programs which advance defense in depth for agents, which we have written about publicly .
This involves communicating Claude’s rapidly improving scientific capabilities through outreach and editorial programs, as well as putting Claude in the hands of researchers through grants, ergonomic research tools, and access programs that help scientists do more with AI than…
Claude is used across government, from US federal civilian agencies to national security, state and local, and allied international governments, and nearly every model and product Anthropic ships has public sector work on the end of it.
Before they can deploy at scale, they need the same foundations everywhere: security and compliance controls, identity and access management, data governance, admin controls, and cost and spend management.
Our Reinforcement Learning teams are central to advancing our AI systems, contributing to every Claude model and driving the autonomy and coding gains in our latest releases.
We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive the scaling and core efficiency programs for the API stack, working at the intersection of the API and the infrastructure it runs on (compute, databases, networking, and inference).
This is not a single-team TPM role. You'll work across the platform engineering teams and every product team that consumes the platform, driving one cohesive roadmap rather than a collection of disconnected workstreams.
The stack that makes this possible is deep and tightly coupled: accelerator kernels, an in-house inference engine that manages the entire token path for both production and research workloads, distributed routing, autoscaling, and capacity management.
Lambda · 8d ago
Own complex programs from planning through rollout, delivering Lambda Public Cloud roadmap commitments with clear accountability for schedule and quality.
Pacing is Anthropic's work to make sure that, as AI capabilities advance, enough time and effort goes into making them safe.
We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to establish and deepen our partnerships with these external reviewers and embedded evaluators to support a thriving frontier evaluation ecosystem.
Many of the controls that matter for financial reporting run on engineering systems: who can access production and financial systems, how code changes are reviewed and deployed, and how usage is metered and billed.
As a Technical Program Manager for Corporate Engineering, you will lead programs that build world-class business solutions enabling every Ant to do their best work.
Scientists use Claude across the life sciences, from drug discovery and research biology to clinical development and manufacturing.
New products, new regions, and new channels all need to be metered, priced, invoiced, and reconciled, and the work to make that happen crosses billing engineering, GTM systems, finance, and support teams. Today much of it runs on escalations rather than programs.
Quote-to-cash spans configure-price-quote, contracting, order management, provisioning, billing, and revenue recognition, and the work to evolve it crosses engineering, GTM systems, finance, legal, and operations teams.
We’re constantly investing in systems and processes to support our rapid scale and enable our recruiters and hiring teams to be more efficient.
As a Technical Program Manager on the Compute team, you will help drive the planning, coordination, and execution of programs that keep Anthropic's compute infrastructure running efficiently at scale.
Every breakthrough in AI safety research and every interaction users have with Claude depends on the systems we build and operate: massive clusters for training frontier models, production infrastructure serving millions of users reliably, and developer platforms that help…
Safeguards Engineering builds and operates the infrastructure that keeps Anthropic's AI systems safe in production — the classifiers, detection pipelines, evaluation platforms, and monitoring systems that sit between our models and the real world.
Serve as the senior program owner and trusted advisor for cross-functional security initiatives, partnering with executive sponsors and functional leads to establish accountability, sequencing, decision rights, and success measures.
The Hardware Systems team owns the design, development, and sourcing of the compute, storage and interconnect hardware needed to build OpenAI’s supercomputers at the scale needed to deliver AGI that is beneficial to humanity. Optimizing the processing hardware for AI models.
Shield AI is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead execution of our aircraft development efforts supporting the U.S. Air Force’s Ranger program.
Lead end-to-end CAD and AI programs, handling roadmaps, achievements, dependencies, resources, risks, governance, and delivery across concurrent workstreams.
Lead end-to-end technical programs across product, engineering, data, and security, from initial scope through launch and continuous improvement.
Envision and trailblaze the company’s approach to leveraging offsite and onsite signals, anticipating future business, technical, and regulatory challenges.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
People Innovation Labs is a product, design, and engineering team embedded in the People organization. We build AI-powered products that improve how OpenAI finds and supports exceptional talent and helps employees do their best work.
As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle.
Lead Axon's most complex cross-organization technical programs, including initiatives that span multiple R&D pillars and business functions. Own organization-level or company-level outcomes from early strategy and problem definition through execution, launch and post-production.
Baseten · 22d ago
Forward Deployed Engineering is Baseten’s swat team. We’re deeply technical, great with customers and fast, and we make the platform better with everything we learn in the field.
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.
Lead technical programs across AI Factory development, deployment, and support, working with engineering and OEM partners to close readiness gaps and resolve dependencies as customer needs evolve.
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.
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.
The median Technical Program Manager salary in our $100k+ listings is $213,000 a year, based on 314 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $184,000 to $248,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Technical Program Manager roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Technical Program Manager listings range from $100,000 to $565,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $184,000 and the 75th percentile is $248,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: senior $195,000 (92 listings), lead $209,000 (6 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Technical Program Manager listings are NVIDIA (30 listings, median $184,000), OpenAI (21 listings, median $271,000), Anthropic (20 listings, median $328,000), Zoox (19 listings, median $230,000) and Anduril Industries (15 listings, median $195,000).
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 13, 2026.
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