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Technical Program Manager, RL Research

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $365,000–$365,000🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own systems and programs determining the speed of RL research, including review/prioritization processes and real-time decision-making for production runs.

Role type

Senior Technical Program Manager (RL Research)

Builds

Production RL runs and model development lifecycle from pre-training to post-training

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML engineering or research background, debugging data pipelines, reading RL transcripts, allocation and quality decision-making, navigating fast-growing organizations, coordinating across research/infrastructure/product/data teams

Preferred skills

building execution plans, inventing high-leverage processes, fast learning in unfamiliar technical domains, influencing senior technical staff

Technologies

ML training pipelines, RLHF systems, large-scale data infrastructure

Responsibilities

Deliver regular reads on RL research ground truth (performance, experiments, health, incidents), prioritize and track experiment state, drive end-to-end research reviews, establish processes for unstructured research settings, collaborate on blockers and technical trade-offs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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