Cheiron
Associate Product Manager, Technical (Los Altos)
Los Altos · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 0–3 years; internships count.
- Education
- CS, engineering, or equivalent technical degree from a top-tier institution.
About the job
Translate product concepts into engineering-ready specifications for an AI-powered pharmaceutical CMC regulatory product, coordinating with product, engineering, and life sciences teams.
What you'll do
- Break product briefs into components and scope builds; write feature stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases, and state transitions.
- Review data models and API contracts against existing schemas, and resolve ambiguities with engineering and life sciences before handoff.
- Define correctness for AI-driven features and own quality of shipped features.
What they ask for
- 0–3 years of experience in product management, technical program management, software engineering, or a related technical role; internships count.
- Strong technical foundation to read code and reason about system architecture; CS, engineering, or equivalent technical degree from a top-tier institution.
- Experience writing structured technical documents with clear requirements and edge cases; academic and internship work counts.
- Fluency with AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI-native products or projects, such as LLM integrations, structured extraction, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, or knowledge graphs.
- Production coding, end-to-end technical projects, startup ownership, or experience with document-heavy, data-quality, or compliance-adjacent products.
Tools
Claude Code, Cursor, LLM integrations
AI focus
Define correctness for AI-driven document extraction, regulatory classification, and compliance state derivation; the product provides CMC regulatory intelligence and reasoning.
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