Radixark

Radixark

Technical Program Manager

Palo Alto, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 hours ago
PythonC++Distributed SystemsGitAWSCI/CDMachine LearningLLMsIncident ResponseAgileStakeholder ManagementCadenceResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • This role is for someone who thrives at the intersection of deep technical understanding and rigorous program execution.
  • Define program structure, including milestones, dependencies, critical paths, risks, and success criteria.
  • Ensure decisions are documented and follow-ups are closed out.

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end execution of large-scale, cross-functional programs spanning inference engines (e.g., SGLang), training frameworks (e.g., Miles), and hardware integration efforts.
  • Define program structure, including milestones, dependencies, critical paths, risks, and success criteria. Maintain a clear source of truth for status across all stakeholders.
  • Run design reviews, sprint planning, release readiness reviews, and post-mortems. Ensure decisions are documented and follow-ups are closed out.
  • Drive release management for major versions, including changelog ownership, compatibility validation, partner rollout sequencing, and rollback planning.
  • Partner with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into executable program plans, with clear scope, staffing, and timelines.
  • Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering leads on technical trade-off decisions
  • Coordinate hardware enablement programs with partners like Nvidia, Google, and AWS, including new accelerator bring-up, kernel co-development, and benchmark validation.
  • Manage integration programs with frontier AI labs and early adopters, ensuring technical requirements, SLAs, and feedback loops are well-defined.
  • Build and improve the engineering operating cadence, including standups, planning rituals, OKR tracking, dashboards, and reporting to leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 4+ years of direct experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Management, or a senior engineering role with significant program ownership, in a software or infrastructure company.
  • Demonstrated track record shipping complex, multi-team programs on time, including managing dependencies, risks, and scope changes.
  • Direct experience shipping AI/ML infrastructure such as inference engines, training frameworks, GPU kernels, distributed schedulers, or model serving platforms.
  • Experience coordinating with hardware vendors (Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, AWS Trainium/Inferentia) on enablement or co-engineering programs.
  • Experience driving open-source release programs or working in OSS communities, including issue triage, RFC processes, and contributor coordination.
  • Familiarity with release engineering, CI/CD systems, and observability tooling for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience supporting B2B or developer-facing products with enterprise SLAs.
  • Minimum Requirements
  • Strong technical fluency in systems software, distributed systems, or AI/ML infrastructure
  • able to read code, follow architecture discussions, and challenge technical assumptions productively.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • able to drive alignment across engineers, executives, and external partners.
  • Preferred (Bonus) Qualifications
  • Hands-on coding background (Python, C++, CUDA) and comfort working in engineering codebases, including reading PRs, running benchmarks, and reproducing issues.

Compensation

  • We offer competitive compensation for this 1-year residency program, with health benefits and potential for conversion to a full-time role.
  • Compensation is determined by location and prior experience.

Benefits

  • Establish metrics and instrumentation for program health such as velocity, defect rates, benchmark regressions, and customer-reported issues, and drive accountability against them.
  • Strong residents may receive offers to join RadixArk full-time with equity after program completion.

Equal opportunity

  • RadixArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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