Senior TPM: AI RL Environments & Scaled Programs

1752vc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

1752vc is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the development and delivery of reinforcement learning environments, training tasks, and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI models. You will collaborate with leading AI labs, internal engineering and research teams, and external technical experts to translate complex research requirements into scalable programs.

This role thrives in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment, driving multiple complex technical programs in parallel

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering leadership, or technical operations.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, AI agents, reinforcement learning, post-training, and model evaluation.
• Exceptional prioritization, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer-facing programs with frontier AI labs to define requirements, roadmaps, and deliverables.
• Lead RL environment development, realistic, interactive RL gyms, and scalable task-generation and evaluation pipelines.
• Production at scale: manage weekly delivery of hundreds of technically complex tasks with quality, diversity, and efficiency.
• Expert & Freelancer management: build and manage distributed networks of technical contributors, cybersecurity specialists, and reviewers.
• Cybersecurity & Agent considerations integrated into program design and execution.

Skills

Technical program management

Engineering leadership

Stakeholder management

AI/ML systems

Job description

1752vc is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the development and delivery of reinforcement learning environments, training tasks, and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI models. You will collaborate with leading AI labs, internal engineering and research teams, and external technical experts to translate complex research requirements into scalable programs.

This role thrives in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment, driving multiple complex technical programs in parallel