Technical Program Manager, Research

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What it asks for · 9

• Have a background in ML research or engineering with several years of experience building technical programs from scratch, ideally with hands-on exposure to training, evaluation, or large-scale distributed systems
• Are a fast learner who can ramp on unfamiliar technical domains quickly and contribute meaningfully to discussions with researchers
• Are resourceful, high-agency, and able to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities to drive progress in fast-moving research environments
• Have a track record of operational ownership of complex technical systems, including monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization
• Can reason about technical tradeoffs at depth across model architecture, training infrastructure, evals, or compute efficiency, and translate them into clear decisions for leadership
• Have excellent stakeholder management skill and the ability to influence senior technical staff through competence and consistent delivery
• Are comfortable with high-stakes environments where decisions impact compute spend, model training timelines, and launch outcomes
• Are passionate about the potential impact of AI and are committed to developing safe and beneficial systems
• Are excited to redefine what technical program management looks like at the frontier of AI research

What the job covers

• Embed deeply within a research domain to understand the technical landscape, build trust with researchers and technical leaders, and identify the highest-leverage problems to solve, knowing the surface area will shift over time as research priorities evolve
• Move fluidly across research areas like compute, evals, RL environments, and emerging research initiatives, picking up new domains quickly and getting to depth fast
• Drive end-to-end execution of complex, ambiguous research initiatives spanning multiple teams, often without established playbooks or precedent
• Establish processes and frameworks that bring structure to unstructured research environments without slowing researchers down
• Lead efforts like large-scale compute resource planning, including allocation, efficiency, and prioritization across research and production workstreams
• Drive eval readiness for model launches by standardizing results, shaping eval plans early, improving tooling, and ensuring honest, transparent reporting across research, product, and marketing
• Own execution and operational health of RL environments across major training runs, coordinating cross-team trade-offs and feeding insights back into roadmap planning
• Equip research leadership to make decisions quickly by going deep on technical tradeoffs and presenting clear, actionable recommendations
• Act as the connective tissue between research, engineering, and product teams to reduce chaos and accelerate execution

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• research19×
• technical10×
• compute5×
• evals5×
• programs5×
• researchers5×
• domains4×
• impact4×
• model4×
• training4×
• build3×
• decisions3×
• drive3×
• execution3×
• priorities3×
• research initiatives3×

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