Research Programs Lead - AI Safety & Infrastructure

Aisafety; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FAR.AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to define and own programs for foundational research and research infrastructure. You will drive end-to-end execution, coordinating multi-team efforts across researchers and engineers to move ideas into production-ready outcomes.

The role emphasizes building scalable processes, managing tradeoffs, and partnering with internal teams to align on timelines, milestones, and impact. Remote U.S.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building technical programs from scratch.
• Practical domain experience in AI/ML such as coordinating model releases, procuring or managing datasets, or supporting evaluations.
• A track record of delivering complex technical programs while managing tradeoffs and strategic priorities.
• Have successfully facilitated technology transfer of foundational and applied research into production environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Technical background in ML/Software

Program management experience

AI/ML domain experience

Strong communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

FAR.AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to define and own programs for foundational research and research infrastructure. You will drive end-to-end execution, coordinating multi-team efforts across researchers and engineers to move ideas into production-ready outcomes.

The role emphasizes building scalable processes, managing tradeoffs, and partnering with internal teams to align on timelines, milestones, and impact. Remote U.S.