Technical Program Manager, Fair (ai Research)

Meta Meta · Big Tech · New York, NY

Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs for FAIR, focusing on compute infrastructure, data management, and generative AI projects. The role involves partnering with researchers and engineers to deliver scalable solutions, guide technical strategy, and ensure the productionization of generative models, while adhering to ethical AI practices and evaluating model performance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive end-to-end program management for technical initiatives spanning compute infrastructure, data management, and generative AI projects.
  2. Ensure alignment and execution across research, engineering, product, infrastructure, and operations teams
  3. Collaborate directly with researchers to understand evolving requirements, workflows, and challenges.
  4. Guide technical strategy, system architecture, and process improvements for compute systems, data pipelines, and generative model productionization.
  5. Facilitate regular communication, documentation, and feedback loops with all stakeholders, including leadership and external partners.

Skills

Required

  • B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience
  • Experience managing technical programs in compute infrastructure, data engineering, machine learning, or generative AI
  • Organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Demonstrated experience building partnerships across technical and research teams
  • Experience to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Experience evaluating model performance online and offline

Nice to have

  • Technical background in compute systems, data engineering, machine learning, or related fields is preferred
  • Familiarity with human data, machine learning datasets, RL environments, and generative model development is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience
  • Experience managing technical programs in compute infrastructure, data engineering, machine learning, or generative AI, ideally in a research or lab environment
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Experience evaluating model performance online and offline

Other signals

  • cross-functional programs
  • accelerate scientific discovery
  • deliver scalable solutions
  • enable cutting-edge research
  • development of state-of-the-art AI products and features
  • generative AI projects
  • model development
  • scientific breakthroughs
  • generative model productionization
  • data quality
  • privacy
  • responsible, ethical AI practices
  • emerging AI technologies
  • model performance online and offline