Senior Technical Program Manager II, Agentic AI Foundation

Linux Foundation | Remote | Full-time

Company Description

Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation supports developer communities on a global scale, providing the necessary tools, training, research, guidance, and events to scale open source projects in ways that cannot be achieved by any single entity.

The Agentic AI Foundation is at the forefront of the open source artificial intelligence revolution. As autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration frameworks, and standardized agent-to-agent communication protocols reshape software development, our foundation brings together top AI researchers, engineers, and enterprise leaders to build open, interoperable, and safe agentic systems. Together with our global community, we are solving the complex technical and governance challenges required to scale agentic workflows globally.

Job Description

We are looking for a technical bridge-builder and builder-at-heart to serve as Senior Technical Program Manager for the Agentic AI Foundation. This high-impact role requires a rare blend of hands-on AI engineering technical acumen and expert open source program management.

In this position, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle and onboarding of new open source projects, working groups, and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) across the agentic ecosystem -- ranging from core agent frameworks and model context protocol implementations to evaluation benchmarks and multi-agent orchestration layers. You will work directly alongside AAIF staff, Technical Committee members, project maintainers, and working group chairs to drive technical roadmaps, clear development bottlenecks, and accelerate project milestones and code deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Project and Working Group Lifecycle -- Lead the onboarding, governance structure, incubation, lifecycle management, and graduation phases for new agentic AI open source projects and working groups

• Technical Milestone Acceleration -- Partner directly with Working Group and Project Chairs to define roadmap goals, track technical deliverables, remove blockers, and drive consistent velocity across code repositories

• Hands-on Technical Facilitation -- Engage deeply with architecture discussions, API standardizations (e.g., tool-calling protocols, memory layers, multi-agent communication), and release management

• Community and Ecosystem Growth -- Help recruit, engage, and retain developer contributors, enterprise adopters, special interest groups, and steering committee members across global time zones and organizational boundaries

• Process and Tooling Alignment -- Deploy LF tools (such as LFX) to track contributor analytics, security compliance, project health, and PMO operations across all foundation initiatives

Qualifications

Technical Acumen and Building Experience

• Demonstrated experience building LLM-driven agents or multi-agent workflows (e.g., utilizing frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, or custom tool-calling engines)

• Solid understanding of modern AI stacks, including context window optimization, Model Context Protocol (MCP), vector databases, agentic memory architectures, and evaluation frameworks

• Comfortable reviewing technical proposals, architecture diagrams, APIs, and RFCs to bridge discussions between maintainers and steering committees

Program Management and Execution

• Proven track record managing project lifecycles, working group charters, and governance frameworks in open source or multi-stakeholder technology environments

• Ability to turn high-level technical vision into actionable milestones, roadmaps, and delivery schedules

• Experience leveraging metric platforms (e.g., GitHub insights, LFX, Jira) to measure project health, contributor velocity, and open pull requests

Leadership and Influence

• Expertise in leading and building consensus among teams, companies, and community members who do not report to you directly

• Ability to engage with VP/CTO-level stakeholders to convey project impact while remaining deeply connected to maintainers and individual contributors

• Deep familiarity with trends, disruptions, and emerging standards across the generative AI and agentic software landscape

Additional Information

Salary $165,000 - $205,000 USD

The Linux Foundation is an all-remote workforce that hires top-notch talent committed to our mission. We are as passionate about providing a flexible and supportive work culture as we are about open source software. Collaboration is in our DNA, and we pride ourselves on working closely together regardless of distance.

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and encourage anyone interested to apply. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The Linux Foundation is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in their country of residence without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.