# Senior Technical Program Manager

**Company:** [Fundamental Research Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fundamental-research-labs)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Linear, SDLC, Technical Program Management, Machine Learning, Llm Development Lifecycle, MLOps, API Design, Cross-Team Coordination, Compliance, Security
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Own the "how" and "when" of product and engineering delivery at an AI company. Standardize tooling, run SDLC, coordinate across Applied AI, Engineering, Research, and FDE teams, and ensure on-time delivery of LLM-powered enterprise products.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Toolset standardization: Consolidate tools to as few systems of record as possible, with a single source of truth for SDLC
- SDLC end-to-end: Own Linear, partner to set real deadlines, hold the line on them, and give leadership an accurate six-month forward view of capacity across Applied AI, Engineering and Research
- Design automated development workflows that can keep pace with AI-accelerated engineering, ensuring that compliance, security, and privacy reviews are inherently baked into the system
- The FDE-to-Engineering handoff: Formalize the path that pulls FDE-built extensions into the core platform; determine when extensions get productized, when they get deprecated, and when functionality folds into the core model
- Cross-team coordination: Run the operating rhythm that connects Applied AI, Engineering, and Research; kill the downtime on blocked dependencies across SF, Europe, and Israel
- API & Technical Specification Alignment: Act as the facilitator for cross-team technical definitions; prevent delivery bottlenecks by ensuring early agreement on API signatures, terminologies, and system design before Engineering is asked to build
- Delivery accountability: When a capability is built but stuck before launch, get it across the line
- Operational reviews: Establish and run a weekly or biweekly review with engineering leadership that surfaces what's on track, what's blocked, and what needs an executive decision
- Collaboration: Work across departments (Marketing, Sales, etc.) for collaboration, communication and coordination

## Requirements
- 7+ years in technical program management, engineering management, or a hybrid role at a high-growth software or AI company
- Direct experience with the machine learning or LLM development lifecycle
- Track record of standing up SDLC and tooling at a company in the 50 to 300 person range
- Comfort with ambiguity and authority; coordinating senior engineers and researchers without managing them
- Experience coordinating engineering across multiple time zones, ideally including the US/Europe/Israel triangle
- Strong written communication

## Nice to Have
- Background in enterprise B2B SaaS, especially companies with both a platform motion and a Forward Deployed Engineering or solutions motion (Palantir, Databricks, Snowflake, Scale, Sierra, and similar)
- Experience working alongside an FDE or applied team where customer-built work needs to be productized
- Familiarity with model deployment, inference infrastructure, or MLOps at production scale

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