Senior Product Manager, Asta

thealleninstitute; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Ai2 in Seattle is seeking a product-minded engineer to own the engineering and data frameworks of Asta, Ai2's platform for building agents that advance scientific research. Your users are researchers and engineers who build on Asta; you will partner with the Agentic Frameworks and Data engineering team.

You will shape the roadmap, ensure reliability for millions of users, and maintain compliance and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define Asta engineering requirements by working directly with Ai2 researchers to understand their workflows, translating what you learn into clear, prioritized specifications for the Agentic Frameworks engineering team.
• Help articulate trade offs to help guide the team towards the highest impact priorities and investments.
• Build and sequence the roadmap for Asta's agentic framework and its supporting tools, so that new tools and capabilities compound toward unlocking real scientific advancements.
• Create and run a continuous feedback loop between engineering and research, so that researchers' needs surface early and shape the roadmap, and so that new capabilities get back in front of researchers quickly.
• Drive adoption of Asta's tools among Ai2's own researchers, so that our internal science runs on the platform we ship to the world.
• Project manage and drive execution across Asta engineering workstreams: track progress against the roadmap, unblock dependencies, and keep engineering and research aligned on priorities and tradeoffs.
• Own the Semantic Scholar platform end to end: data platform and public APIs. Balancing reliability for millions of users with the roadmap to rebuild the platform.
• Own Ai2's benchmarking strategy for scientific agents: set the direction for AstaBench, our public benchmark suite, and define which evaluations Ai2 standardizes on internally, with partners, and for the broader AI research community
• Own regulatory and governance compliance for these products, including data subject rights such as right to access and right to be forgotten, partnering with legal as needed.
• Represent the researcher and developer perspective in engineering planning, and represent engineering constraints and tradeoffs back to research and leadership.
• Contribute to how Ai2 does product manage

Job description

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.

Our base salary range is $115,920 - $173,880, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

Who You Are:

You think like a builder and an advocate at the same time. You can sit with a researcher who's pursuing a novel method and hasn't yet found the words to describe what they need, and translate that into engineering requirements that an engineering team can actually build against. You're comfortable operating at the intersection of infrastructure and science: you don't need to be an ML researcher, but you're genuinely curious about how researchers work, what agentic frameworks make possible, and where the current tooling gets in their way. You know how to turn a fuzzy, ambitious mission into a tactical roadmap with sequenced milestones and clear ownership. You hold a high bar for the experiences and tools already in the hands of our users, because internal researchers and the broader community depend on them being fast, reliable, and compliant, even while you're pushing the frontier of what's next.

Who We Are:

At Ai2, our mission is to develop breakthrough AI that solves the world's biggest problems. We believe the insight needed to get there lives at the intersection of deep scientific AI understanding and the application of AI in common-good domains. This role sits on our Strategic Programs team, which also includes Product Management, Design, and Communications. As a team, we help shape Ai2's strategic vision and accelerate execution of its goals. We are a highly collaborative team with a high bar for excellence, who aren't afraid to question how things have been done in the past to propose changes that drive the organization forward. It's a very exciting time to be part of this team as Ai2 plays a unique role in shaping how AI changes the world.

Your Next Challenge:

You will own the engineering and data frameworks of Asta, Ai2's platform for building agents that advance scientific research. Your users are the researchers and engineers who build on Asta; Ai2's own research teams and the broader AI-for-science community. Your primary partner will be the Agentic Frameworks and Data engineering team. You'll be one of the first product minds shaping what an agentic platform for science actually looks like. There's no existing playbook to inherit, so you have the opportunity to define engineering requirements grounded in real researcher workflows, build the roadmap for Asta's agentic framework and its supporting tools, and run the feedback loop that keeps engineering and research in continuous conversation. You'll also own the Semantic Scholar data platform end to end; a knowledge graph of 100M+ papers, and the public APIs that power Asta and science agents. You'll keep these resources reliable for the millions who depend on it and continue building them into the highest-quality open literature resource in the field.

In This Role, You Will:

• Define Asta engineering requirements by working directly with Ai2 researchers to understand their workflows, translating what you learn into clear, prioritized specifications for the Agentic Frameworks engineering team.
• Help articulate trade offs to help guide the team towards the highest impact priorities and investments.
• Build and sequence the roadmap for Asta's agentic framework and its supporting tools, so that new tools and capabilities compound toward unlocking real scientific advancements.
• Create and run a continuous feedback loop between engineering and research, so that researchers' needs surface early and shape the roadmap, and so that new capabilities get back in front of researchers quickly.
• Drive adoption of Asta's tools among Ai2's own researchers, so that our internal science runs on the platform we ship to the world.
• Project manage and drive execution across Asta engineering workstreams: track progress against the roadmap, unblock dependencies, and keep engineering and research aligned on priorities and tradeoffs.
• Own the Semantic Scholar platform end to end: data platform and public APIs. Balancing reliability for millions of users with the roadmap to rebuild the platform.
• Own Ai2's benchmarking strategy for scientific agents: set the direction for AstaBench, our public benchmark suite, and define which evaluations Ai2 standardizes on internally, with partners, and for the broader AI research community
• Own regulatory and governance compliance for these products, including data subject rights such as right to access and right to be forgotten, partnering with legal as needed.
• Represent the researcher and developer perspective in engineering planning, and represent engineering constraints and tradeoffs back to research and leadership.
• Contribute to how Ai2 does product manage