Frontier AI Research Product Lead

Bison; San Francisco (CA); Vor Ort; USD 350.000 - 400.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Relocation assistance

Zusammenfassung

Thinking Machines is seeking a Research Product Manager to partner with researchers and engineers, shaping capabilities of frontier models and the methods to customize them. The role focuses on mid-training to influence data strategies, training recipes, and knowledge acquisition across coding, math, reasoning, and knowledge-intensive work.

You will connect research direction, evidence, and real-world needs, helping decide which capabilities to pursue and how to invest.

Qualifikationen

• Experience driving technically demanding products or research initiatives in AI labs or similar ambiguous environments.
• Experience with model training, training data, evaluations, customization, or ML infrastructure.
• Strong judgment about experimental evidence and metrics.

Aufgaben

• Partner with research leaders to shape capability priorities and plan work.
• Translate capability goals into concrete research questions across data sourcing, curation, synthetic data generation, mixture design, and training recipes.
• Connect evaluations to the capabilities we want to build and assess generalization through downstream training.
• Incorporate feedback from users, developers, and partners into research direction.
• Define foundations for further learning, including mid-training impact on stability and adaptation.
• Maintain a clear view across research, data, evaluations, training infrastructure, and product dependencies.
• Create lightweight plans and decision records to keep ambitious work moving.
• Help carry promising research into broader use through internal adoption and product integration.

Kenntnisse

Experience driving AI research-powered

Technical depth in model training & ML

Experimental evidence judgment

Cross-team ownership

Clear written and verbal communication

Jobbeschreibung

Thinking Machines is seeking a Research Product Manager to partner with researchers and engineers, shaping capabilities of frontier models and the methods to customize them. The role focuses on mid-training to influence data strategies, training recipes, and knowledge acquisition across coding, math, reasoning, and knowledge-intensive work.

You will connect research direction, evidence, and real-world needs, helping decide which capabilities to pursue and how to invest.