AfterQuery
Research Technical Program Manager
$210K–$450K
San Francisco · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 2-4 years project/program management experience.
About the job
Owns execution of research programs, translating open-ended goals into plans and aligning researchers, engineers, and external partners to improve delivery.
What you'll do
- Plan and execute post-training, enterprise post-training, fellowship, and public evaluation programs.
- Translate research objectives into milestones, owners, dependencies, success criteria, and decision points.
- Track program health, including experiment progress, risks, blockers, partner dependencies, and upcoming releases.
What they ask for
- 2-4 years project/program management experience.
- Experience leading complex technical programs across research, machine learning, engineering, or data organizations.
- Working knowledge of the LLM development lifecycle, including data creation, SFT, RL-based post-training, and evaluation.
- Strong communication and ability to turn messy technical information into clear decisions and next steps.
Pay
$210K – $450K (base salary); $250k-450k total compensation + equity (total pay)
Tools
LLM, SFT, RL
AI focus
Coordinates research programs involving post-training, datasets, evaluations, training pipelines, and partner research.
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