Technical Program Manager, Research

About the role

We are looking for Technical Program Managers to define programs for both our foundational research and research infrastructure teams.

Our Research organization is scaling up by expanding our portfolio of research agendas, including model deception, applied interpretability, evaluation awareness, pre-training filtering, and open-weight safety.

You'll find the highest-leverage problems and own them end to end, building the processes, systems, and tooling that help our researchers and engineers move faster.

What You'll Do

• Take complex technical programs from idea to delivery: scope the plan and milestones, then keep complex, multi-team work moving efficiently, transparently, and to a high technical bar.
• Prioritize across competing demands in partnership with research teams so the teams' effort lands on the highest-impact work.
• Build and maintain compute and resource roadmaps by surfacing bottlenecks and trade-offs, finding ways to accelerate progress and build relationships with potential external partners.
• Partner with researchers to package their work effectively to get our research into the hands of people who can act on it by transferring findings, methods, and tools to frontier labs and other stakeholders.
• Connect research and engineering with our internal partners in Operations, Events and Communications giving each the timelines, results, and context they need to plan, resource, and communicate our work.

About You

• Strong candidates typically have many (but not all) of the following:
• Strong technical background with a deep understanding of AI/ML.
• Able to hold your own in discussions with researchers and engineers.
• Comfortable with ramping up quickly on unfamiliar technical domains.
• Reason about technical trade-offs in depth to facilitate clear decisions by stakeholders.
• Enjoy 0-to-1 work by building the processes, systems, and structure where none exist, rather than inheriting them.
• Thriving in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment that is scaling quickly.
• Hold a deep commitment to ensuring safe and beneficial AI.

Who is a Poor Fit?

• Have no technical background.
• Want to inherit a mature TPM function rather than help build one.
• Are looking for a product management role with a product roadmap, rather than driving programs, processes, and delivery across research and infrastructure.