--- title: Senior Technical Program Manager LLM Safety at NVIDIA description: NVIDIA is hiring for the Senior Technical Program Manager LLM Safety role in Santa Clara, CA. Full-time role. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-technical-program-manager-llm-safety-at-nvidia-01a17bda-2be2-7ac2-9a4c-3d7c7dc0cef2 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join NVIDIA as Senior Technical Program Manager LLM Safety in Santa Clara, CA. Pays $168K–$258.8K per year. Full-time role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/vr1myg.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | Santa Clara, CA | | **Salary** | $168K/yr - $258.8K/yr | | **Posted** | Oct 26, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** NVIDIA sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 3,120 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for NVIDIA. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $213,000 – $261,000 a year (median $213,000). ## Description At NVIDIA, we redefine what’s possible in digital imaging, personal computer gaming, and high-performance computing. Now, we lead the charge into AI’s unlimited potential. Our GPUs act as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars. They enable these machines to understand and interact with the world in new ways. This is your chance to join a legacy of innovation and excellence. Work with the world’s best talent in a diverse and encouraging environment. Join us and make a lasting impact on the world! This is an ambitious opportunity to work at the forefront of AI safety and contribute to groundbreaking advancements in technology. **What You’ll Be Doing:** - Lead cross-functional planning and execution for evaluation identification, selection and execution. With a focus on agentic-safety evaluations, including multi-turn tool calling, unsafe tool use, unintended actions, excessive autonomy, and multi-step failures. - Track execution, results for all evals, analysis, and the mitigation and research plans for improvement that will stem from results analysis. Translate evaluation findings into prioritized mitigation plans with accountable owners, committed dates, and measurable closure criteria - Lead end-to-end safety planning and execution for Nemotron models, including program scope, dependencies, risks, resources, and release-readiness criteria. - Translate technical safety priorities into executable programs covering LLM security, frontier risks, agentic safety, hallucinations - Establish and track multi-turn, multi-modal, multi-lingual, long-context, and reasoning model evaluations across relevant use cases, domains, languages, modalities, and model releases. - Establish governance for reviewing safety findings, assigning severity, determining release impact, and escalating unresolved risks. Ensure required safety evidence, approvals, exceptions, and risk-acceptance decisions are documented before release. Identify program gaps and critical dependencies early and drive decisions, escalations, recovery plans, and corrective actions. - Build (with AI for Code/AI for Work) and maintain dashboards and executive reporting for evaluation coverage, critical findings, mitigation progress, residual risk, and release readiness. **What we need to see:** - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related technical field. - 10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, product development, technical operations, or a similar area. - Strong understanding of LLM architecture, frameworks (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face), and model evaluation. - Familiarity with LLM development, post-training, inference, tool calling, evaluation datasets, and model-release lifecycles. - Experience directing programs related to AI/ML development, model evaluation, agentic safety, security, content safety, hallucinations, and/or production releases. - Familiarity with AI safety risks such as hallucinations, timely injection attacks, unsafe tool use, data poisoning, model manipulation, and unintended agent behavior. - Experience supporting model-safety evaluations, Red Teaming, adversarial testing, security assessments, or responsible-AI programs. - Ability to interpret technical evaluation findings and communicate their product, schedule, and release implications to leadership. **Ways to stand out from the crowd:** - Experience with LLM Agentic Safety, Security, Red Teaming, Hallucinations, adversarial assessment, or Responsible AI. - Experience defining evaluation datasets, rubrics, benchmarks, and release gates. - Ability to use evaluation results and data to make clear release recommendations and communicate residual risk to leadership. - Experience crafting or operationalizing multi-turn, hallucination, adversarial, or agentic-safety evaluations. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working with us, and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the most impactful fields of our generation: Autonomous Vehicles or Robotics. If you're a creative Senior Technical Program Manager who embraces autonomy and shares our passion for technology, we want to hear from you. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 168,000 USD – 258,750 USD for Level 4; and 200,000 USD – 322,000 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and [benefits](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/). Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. ## Skills - Escalation Management - Data Science - Program Management - Responsible AI - Planning - AI Security - Executive Reporting - Model Evaluation (Machine Learning) - Anthropic Claude - AI Safety - Directing - Risk Acceptance - OpenAI - New Product Development - Adversarial Testing - LLM Evals - Red Team (Cybersecurity Offense) - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Rlhf) - Risk Mitigation - Hugging Face - Corrective And Preventive Action (Capa) - Large Language Models (Llm) - Technical Operations - Tool Calling - Leadership - Computer Science - Assessment Rubric Development - Security Assessment - Machine Learning - Governance - Equities ## Related - [More jobs at NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [IT Manager jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/it-managers?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Technical Program Manager jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/it-managers/technical-program-manager?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 260760 jobs - [Computer Hardware](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/computer-hardware?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 22574 jobs - [Santa Clara, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/santa-clara?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 6822 jobs - [NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 2765 jobs ## Related pages - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 260760 jobs - [Computer Hardware](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/computer-hardware?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 22574 jobs - [Santa Clara, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/santa-clara?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 6822 jobs - [NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 2765 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)