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Research Technical Program Manager

AfterQuery· Research
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San Francisco$210k - $450kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role to drive ambitious research programs by turning open-ended goals into actionable plans, maintaining program health, and enabling researchers, engineers, SPLs, and partners to align and ship high-quality work.

Responsibilities

  • Own planning and execution across post-training, enterprise post-training, fellowship, and public evaluation programs.
  • Translate ambiguous research objectives into milestones, owners, dependencies, success criteria, and decision points.
  • Maintain a trustworthy view of program health, including experiment progress, risks, blockers, partner dependencies, and upcoming releases.

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years project/program management experience
  • Experience leading complex technical programs across research, machine learning, engineering, or data organizations
  • Working knowledge of the LLM development lifecycle, including data creation, SFT, RL-based post-training, and evaluation
  • Strong communication and an ability to turn messy technical information into clear decisions and next steps

Skills

Required:Project/Program ManagementCross-functional leadershipLLM development lifecycle

Benefits

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
  • 401(k) with Employer Match
  • Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions to accelerate foundation model development.

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