Research Product Manager

THE ROLE

As a Research Product Manager, you will drive model training engagements with customers. You will understand the customer’s data, objectives, and success criteria, and work with researchers to build and execute on model training plans. This role requires a broad skillset: on any given day, you’ll flex across product, research, engineering, and GTM functions.

What You'll Do

• Drive the roadmap for research engagements. You’ll work with customers to translate their needs into research requirements. You’ll work with researchers and engineers to execute on model training engagements.
• Own relationships with customers. You are the primary interface between the customer and our research and engineering teams. You’ll make sure that the customer’s needs are understood and that we are driving impact for their business.
• Deeply understand model behaviors. You’ll spend time staring at traces, building taxonomies, hunting for pathologies, and critiquing evals.
• Bring research learnings into the product. You’ll drive the productization of research techniques from customer engagements into the AC2 training platform.

What We're Looking For

• Clear communication. In this role, you will interface with researchers, technical buyers, engineers, and salespeople. Your job is to drive clarity amongst them. You should excel at explaining complex topics in simple terms.
• Technical rigor. You are someone that researchers and engineers trust to lead a model training engagement. We expect you to understand the capabilities of the systems we build, and you should have programming experience. You should have hands-on experience building with LLMs and strong familiarity with coding agents.
• Strong commercial sense. You’ve worked with enterprise customers and have strong customer empathy.
• High slope. You’re a fast learner. You don’t need to have experience in model pre- or post-training, but you should be able to ramp quickly on any technical topic.

Strong Candidates Also Have

• Experience working at an enterprise AI company
• Educational background in computer science or mathematics
• Experience at companies with forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering cultures
• Experience working in management consulting, with technical experience before or after
• Familiarity with model pre-training or post-training techniques, including reinforcement learning

BENEFITS & LOGISTICS

This role is based in San Francisco. We work from our office in the Mission. We offer:

• Competitive compensation and equity
• 100% employer-paid health insurance coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Daily lunches and dinners
• Transportation and relocation support
• 5% 401(k) match

We sponsor visas. While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the process with you. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. As set forth in Applied Compute’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.