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Strategic Projects Lead

Patronus AI· Operations
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San Francisco, CA$125k - $250kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Strategic Projects Lead responsible for delivering high-quality simulations and environments for real-world workflows to influence training, evaluation, and deployment of frontier AI systems. Role is highly autonomous and customer-facing, coordinating cross-functional teams to turn requirements into deliverables and building scalable systems and tooling for simulation environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end delivery of high-quality simulations and environments for impactful real-world workflows, from translating customer requirements into concrete build targets through final delivery.
  • Stay close to the details and maintain a clear view of open tasks, delivery gaps, quality risks, technical blockers, and timeline confidence.
  • Serve as the primary delivery interface with customers, aligning on sample tasks, incorporating feedback, communicating progress, and managing expectations week to week.
  • Partner with technical, research, and QA leads to prioritize what to build, improve, or review next based on delivery needs, model behavior, quality gaps, and customer requirements.
  • Define and uphold objective quality standards for simulations, tasks, environments, and deliverables, ensuring each shipment meets requirements for correctness, difficulty, diversity, volume, and readiness. Build and maintain automated QA and review tooling that upholds these standards.
  • Analyze model behavior, task quality, and failure modes to understand what separates strong environments from weak ones, then translate those insights into better reward design, task generation, QA processes, and review workflows.
  • Turn learnings from strategic projects into scalable systems, processes, and tooling that improve how Patronus builds, evaluates, and delivers simulation environments for frontier AI systems.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, Mathematics, or another technical / quantitative field.
  • >1 year experience in the human data space working on RL envs, task design at a top tier company.
  • Strong technical fluency, including comfort using AI tools, writing or reviewing code, and analyzing data or model outputs.
  • Excellent organization and execution skills, with the ability to manage tasks, timelines, quality reviews, customer requirements, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Strong eye for quality and detail, with a bias toward catching edge cases, inconsistencies, and subtle failure modes.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate customer needs into concrete technical requirements.
  • Good character, integrity, and respect for others!

Skills

Required:Project delivery managementRequirements translation to technical specsQuality assurance toolingRL environment design

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity packages
  • 15 days of paid vacation per annum
  • Parental & sick leave
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
  • 401(k) plan + matching
  • In-office lunch & dinner
  • Whoop band
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Monthly health and wellness stipend
  • Equinox membership
  • Fun global offsites!
Last updated Oct 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Patronus AI

Simulating the World's Intelligence

Patronus AI develops simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate progress toward human-aligned AGI

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