Research Product Manager

What you'll do

• Shape capability priorities and translate goals into focused research questions and experiments.
• Connect evaluations and user evidence to decisions about model quality, generalization, and downstream adaptation.
• Coordinate research, data, evaluations, infrastructure, and product work; support adoption and integration of promising capabilities.

What they ask for

• Experience driving technically demanding products or research initiatives in an AI lab, research organization, technical startup, or similarly ambiguous environment.
• Experience working closely with model training, training data, evaluations, customization, or ML infrastructure, with technical depth to engage substantively with researchers and engineers.
• Strong judgment about experimental evidence and whether metrics capture intended outcomes.
• Track record turning open-ended problems into focused cross-team work; clear communication, intellectual honesty, and follow-through.

Nice to have

• Experience with continued pre-training, mid-training, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or domain adaptation.
• Familiarity with synthetic data pipelines, data quality systems, training mixture design, or relevant model evaluations.

Pay

$350,000 - $400,000 USD annual salary range (base salary)

AI focus

Research product management for frontier models, especially mid-training, data and synthetic data strategies, training recipes, evaluations, customization, and capability development.