Technical Program Manager, Research

Overview

As a Technical Program Manager for Research, you will define and build research programs that help research teams focus on high-impact work across model development.

What you'll do

• Embed within a research domain to understand the technical landscape and identify highest-leverage problems.
• Move across research areas such as compute, evals, and RL environments, ramping quickly to depth.
• Drive end-to-end execution of complex, ambiguous research initiatives across multiple teams.
• Establish processes and frameworks for structured progress in unstructured research environments.
• Lead large-scale compute resource planning, including allocation and prioritization.
• Drive eval readiness for model launches by standardizing results and improving tooling and reporting.
• Own execution and operational health of RL environments across major training runs.

What you'll need

• Background in ML research or engineering with several years of experience building technical programs from scratch.
• Hands-on exposure to training, evaluation, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to ramp on unfamiliar technical domains quickly and contribute to researcher discussions.
• Track record of operational ownership for complex technical systems, including monitoring and incident response.
• Ability to reason about technical tradeoffs across model architecture, training infrastructure, evals, or compute efficiency.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to influence senior technical staff.
• Comfort with high-stakes environments where decisions affect compute spend, training timelines, and launch outcomes.

Details

• Respond to incidents on short notice, including on weekends.
• Location-based hybrid policy: in an office at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship is available; not guaranteed for every role/candidate.