Research Program Manager Model Development
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Summary
A research program manager who embeds with pre-training ML and data teams at an AI model developer, coordinating experiment planning, run scheduling, data readiness, checkpoint handoffs, and research milestones across training and infrastructure teams, while advising research leadership on technical tradeoffs.
You will embed with pre-training ML and data teams to coordinate research initiatives. You will manage experiment planning, scheduling, data readiness, technical handoffs, and research milestones while helping leadership make informed decisions on model-development tradeoffs.
Responsibilities
- Embed with pre-training ML and Data teams
- Drive cross-team research initiatives across data, model architecture, training, and evaluation
- Coordinate experiment prioritization, run scheduling, data readiness, and checkpoint handoffs
- Present actionable recommendations on technical tradeoffs to research leadership
- Build lightweight processes for handoffs, configuration management, and research milestones
- Connect pre-training, mid-training, post-training, and infrastructure teams
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in technical program management, research operations, or ML engineering
- Experience building programs in research or ML-heavy environments
- Knowledge of model architecture, scaling laws, data processing pipelines, training dynamics, and optimizer behavior
- Technical stakeholder management
- Ability to operate in ambiguous and shifting environments
- Experience with decisions affecting model quality, compute spend, and training timelines
Benefits
- Equity
- Stock options
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Annual wellness allowance
- Daily office lunch and dinner
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off in the U.S.
- 30 days of vacation in the U.K.
- Visa sponsorship support
- Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations
