Technical Program Manager, RL Research & AI Innovation

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 365,000 - 435,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a Technical Program Manager for the reinforcement learning team to own programs accelerating research velocity, delivering trustworthy RL progress readouts, and coordinating reviews across research, infrastructure, product, and data operations. A strong ML engineering or research background and proven scalable process leadership are essential.

Join Anthropic to help build safe, reliable AI systems while navigating a fast-growing organization and balancing

Qualifications

• Background in ML engineering or ML research.
• Hands-on experience with ML training pipelines, RLHF systems, and large-scale data infrastructure in production.
• Track record of building execution plans and high-leverage processes.
• Fast learner with deep contextual understanding in unfamiliar domains.
• Resourceful, high-agency, and able to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excited about pushing the frontier of RL at scale.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a regular read on the ground truth in RL research, covering performance against baselines, experiment results, day-to-day health, and incidents.
• Work with RL org leads on prioritizing, ranking, and tracking the state of experiments.
• Drive research reviews end to end in partnership with set the agenda, make sure the right context is in the room ahead of time, and close the loop on what gets decided.
• Establish processes and frameworks that bring structure to an unstructured research setting without slowing researchers down.
• Collaborate with research leads, infrastructure engineers, and data operations to identify blockers, prioritize competing needs, and make technical trade-off decisions.

Skills

ML engineering

ML research

Training pipelines

RLHF systems

Data infrastructure

Execution plans

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Ambiguity navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a Technical Program Manager for the reinforcement learning team to own programs accelerating research velocity, delivering trustworthy RL progress readouts, and coordinating reviews across research, infrastructure, product, and data operations. A strong ML engineering or research background and proven scalable process leadership are essential.

Join Anthropic to help build safe, reliable AI systems while navigating a fast-growing organization and balancing