RL Research & Scaling Program Manager

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind's Gemini RL Scaling team is at the frontier of reinforcement learning research for large language models, driving the reasoning, multimodal, and agentic capabilities that define the next generation of Gemini models.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will independently drive program execution for critical RL workstreams, sitting at the intersection of empirical research and large-scale distributed systems while partnering with researchers to operationalize scaling experiments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5 years of experience in technical program management.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience leading cross-functional AI model programs, scalable distributed training, and RL.
• Ability to design lightweight processes that maintain team velocity.
• Comfort with ambiguity and strong communication across engineering, research, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Scope, plan, and lead execution for RL research workstreams in collaboration with tech leads, turning research hypotheses into structured roadmaps, experiment plans, and deliverable model milestones.
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure leads to manage and track experiments and compute allocations, enabling prioritization, monitoring training efficiency, and unblocking runs.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional dependencies across the RL research ecosystem (data pipelines, evaluations, distributed infrastructure) and partner teams.
• Establish reliable operational rhythms including experiment status dashboards, launch criteria, retrospectives, and milestone reviews, synthesizing complex training dynamics into actionable updates for tech leads and leadership.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google DeepMind's Gemini RL Scaling team is at the frontier of reinforcement learning research for large language models, driving the reasoning, multimodal, and agentic capabilities that define the next generation of Gemini models.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will independently drive program execution for critical RL workstreams, sitting at the intersection of empirical research and large-scale distributed systems while partnering with researchers to operationalize scaling experiments