Technical Program Manager, RL Research
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