Technical Project Manager

The role

You will own and advance engagement with a key strategic partner by managing technical, operational, and strategic activities. You will lead cross-functional engineering teams to ensure the technical success of joint projects and manage complex deliverables.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end planning and execution of complex technical evaluation projects
• Develop and maintain detailed project timelines
• Lead daily standups and syncs to track progress and unblock engineering teams
• Manage deliverables such as performance benchmarks, technical reports, and software artifacts
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the customer's engineering teams
• Manage customer expectations and communicate project status
• Translate customer requirements and feedback into actionable engineering tasks
• Prepare and deliver technical briefings and reports to customer stakeholders
• Coordinate the work of a large, distributed team of engineers
• Drive technical decisions on project scope

Required qualifications

• Fluent in Japanese and English
• Experience in supporting strategic Japanese and US high technical companies
• Can manage cultural and time-zone differences
• 10+ years of experience in a technical project management, engineering lead, or customer-facing architect role within AI/ML, HPC, or systems infrastructure
• Proven experience managing complex software/hardware integration or evaluation projects with tight deadlines
• Strong understanding of AI/ML workloads, including model training, inference, and the associated software stack (e.g., PyTorch, vLLM)
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs) and mixture-of-experts (MoE) models
• Background in performance analysis and benchmarking of AI systems
• Familiarity with compiler technology, parallel programming, or high-speed networking

Benefits

• Base salary plus equity
• 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
• 77% premium coverage for dependents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care
• Headspace subscription
• Gympass+ membership
• One Medical membership
• Counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program

About the company

SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide.