Lila Sciences
Research Product Manager, Fine-tuning
$204K–$310K
Cambridge, MA USA +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
San Francisco, CA USA
Alewife, Cambridge, MA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- No years specified.
About the job
Owns capability priorities for the Lila model and leads the roadmap and delivery of fine-tuned model variants for priority platform and commercial use cases.
What you'll do
- Prioritize training-capability packages combining reinforcement-learning environments and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data.
- Define and deliver fine-tuned model variants, including training data, evaluations, and release criteria.
- Coordinate with AI Research and app and platform teams to track delivery, validate capabilities, and hand off fine-tunes.
What they ask for
- Experience as a Product Manager on ML/AI products.
- Experience delivering a model or product variant for external or commercial customers, including defining data, evaluations, and release criteria.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize backlogs across scientific, research, and commercial demands.
- Strong cross-functional partnership with research teams and ability to translate evolving priorities into sequenced deliverables.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with capability-based LLM training, including RL environments, SFT data generation, and evaluations.
- Experience partnering with ML/AI research teams on evaluation design and release criteria; scientific or technical domain background relevant to Lila’s mission.
Pay
$204,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Lila model, reinforcement-learning environments, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), LLM
AI focus
Prioritize scientific-domain capabilities for the Lila model and deliver fine-tuned variants using training data, reinforcement-learning environments, SFT data, and evaluations.
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