Abridge
Member of Product Staff, Foundation Models & Post-Training
$250K–$290K
SF Office · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; product-management or closely related experience.
About the job
Leads product strategy for Abridge’s foundation models and post-training, turning clinical data and ML research into safe, measurable model capabilities in production.
What you'll do
- Set model portfolio strategy and prioritize tradeoffs across capability, quality, latency, cost, safety, and controllability.
- Define research-to-production milestones, decision gates, evaluation criteria, and success metrics.
- Coordinate ML, product, clinical, data, privacy, security, and evaluation teams to turn feedback and proprietary data into model improvements.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of product-management or closely related experience, including substantial ownership of ML-powered products, model platforms, or AI infrastructure.
- Track record of translating ambiguous technical capabilities into shipped products and measurable outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of the model-development lifecycle, including data strategy, fine-tuning and preference optimization, evaluation, inference, experimentation, and production monitoring.
- Technical judgment in ML and strong product judgment, with an emphasis on evidence, safety, and trust.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, preference optimization, distillation, model routing, or domain-adaptive pretraining.
- Experience shipping AI in healthcare or another safety-critical, regulated domain.
Pay
$250K – $290K USD base salary
Tools
LLM, frontier APIs, open-source models
AI focus
Foundation-model strategy and post-training for clinical AI, including using proprietary clinical data and feedback to improve models, evaluating capabilities and failure modes, and moving models from experiments into production.
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