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Technical Program Manager, RL Research

Anthropic· Technical Program Management
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)$365k - $435kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Technical Program Manager on the reinforcement learning team responsible for systems and programs that accelerate RL research, including state-of-research readouts, prioritization processes, and production RL coordination.

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

Qualifications

  • Background in ML engineering or ML research before transitioning to technical program management
  • 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 that reduce operational overhead and let researchers focus on research
  • Fast learner with ability to build deep contextual understanding in unfamiliar technical domains
  • Resourceful, high-agency, able to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities in a fast-moving research setting
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across senior technical staff
  • Excitement for pushing the frontier of RL at scale

Skills

Required:ML engineering / ML research backgroundML training pipelinesRLHF systemslarge-scale data infrastructure in productionexecution planning and process designstakeholder management

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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