Technical Program Manager- LLM supporting Nvidia

Sustainable Talent is partnering with NVIDIA, a global leader that has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for over 25 years.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager- LLM, to support our client's Simulation Division.

This is a full-time (W-2) contract role based in Santa Clara, CA.

We offer competitive pay $95/hr - $125/hr based on factors like experience, education, location, etc. and provide full benefits, PTO, and amazing company culture!

As a Technical Program Manager, you will help manage, test and improve NVIDIA’s simulation products.

You will define best practices for defining and delivery products, project planning and development methodologies and represent the voice of the customer in the product planning process.

You will have a strong passion for planning, development and a broad knowledge of real time technology, and good sensibility for building products.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead cross-functional AI initiatives, coordinating between research, engineering, and product teams to deliver agentic AI features and systems.
• Drive MLOps capabilities supporting reproducible training, experiment tracking, model versioning, evaluation, release automation, and production monitoring.
• Manage model-development dependencies involving datasets, compute capacity, training infrastructure, inference platforms, and evaluation tooling.
• Coordinate evaluation across accuracy, quality, latency, robustness, reliability, safety, and production-readiness dimensions.
• Support speech-model development across areas such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, speech translation, audio understanding, and conversational AI.
• Drive readiness reviews and ensure that technical issues lead to remediation, retesting, or documented decisions.
• Collaborate with engineering on sprint planning, stand ups and sprint review and retrospective
• Work with engineering and product on shaping the roadmap and providing PORs to help with execution
• Ensure technical alignment and execution, translating research concepts into production-ready capabilities.
• Establish best practices to help improve productivity
• Manage dependencies and risks across multiple AI projects, ensuring milestones are met and resources are effectively allocated.