Technical Program Manager, Research
Core
Define and build programs, processes, and tooling for AI research teams to focus on frontier AI development, spanning compute, evals, RL environments, and emerging initiatives.
Role type
Senior Technical Program Manager for Research
Builds
Programs, processes, and tooling enabling research teams to execute complex, ambiguous initiatives and manage large-scale compute resources.
Domain
Artificial Intelligence Research (ML, RL, Compute, Safety)
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Program management for complex technical systems, rapid domain ramp-up in AI research, stakeholder management with senior technical staff, operational ownership of large-scale distributed systems, technical trade-off analysis, incident response
Preferred skills
Background in ML research or engineering, experience building technical programs from scratch, hands-on exposure to model training or evaluation
Technologies
Large-scale distributed systems, RL environments, model training infrastructure, compute resource planning tools
Responsibilities
Embed within research domains to identify high-leverage problems and build trust with researchers; Drive end-to-end execution of complex, ambiguous research initiatives without established playbooks; Establish processes and frameworks for unstructured research environments; Lead large-scale compute resource planning and allocation; Drive eval readiness for model launches by standardizing results and improving tooling; Own execution and operational health of RL environments across major training runs; Act as connective tissue between research, engineering, and product teams to accelerate execution
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
