AI Technical Project Manager: Drive Prod-Ready Research

Autoscience Institute; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Unlimited PTO

Conference attendance

Publication support

Job summary

Autoscience Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join on site. You will keep engineering and research teams shipping reliable, well-planned work while translating customer commitments into clear internal priorities and timelines.

You will act as a technical bridge between engineers, researchers, and customer-facing stakeholders, turning ambiguous priorities into concrete, sequenced plans and keeping leadership informed of progress and delivery

Qualifications

• Experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, or Technical Program Manager at a fast-moving software or AI company.
• Able to read technical specs, architecture docs, or PRs to follow conversations.
• Proven track record of holding technical teams accountable to deadlines without direct management.
• Strong organizational skills and clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to build trust with engineers and researchers.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity at an early-stage startup with a small, fast-moving team.
• Bias toward action and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Own program status across engineering and research workstreams, proactively identifying risks and unblocking progress before they threaten a milestone
• Translate customer commitments into clear internal priorities and timelines
• Act as a technical bridge between engineers, researchers, and customer facing stakeholders
• Partner with engineering leads and researchers to turn ambiguous priorities into concrete, sequenced plans
• Keep leadership informed on progress, risk, and delivery timelines
• Instill a culture of shipping reliably: clean, tested, production ready work, on schedule

Skills

PM/TPM experience

Architecture docs

Accountability under constraints

Cross-functional communication

Trust with engineers

Ambiguity tolerance

Bias toward action

Job description

Autoscience Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join on site. You will keep engineering and research teams shipping reliable, well-planned work while translating customer commitments into clear internal priorities and timelines.

You will act as a technical bridge between engineers, researchers, and customer-facing stakeholders, turning ambiguous priorities into concrete, sequenced plans and keeping leadership informed of progress and delivery