Technical Program Manager

The role

The Technical Program Manager will keep engineering and research teams shipping clean, reliable work on schedule. This role focuses on execution and turning ambiguous priorities into concrete plans.

What you will do

• Own program status across engineering and research workstreams
• Proactively identify risks and unblock progress
• Translate customer commitments into clear internal priorities and timelines
• Act as a technical bridge between engineers, researchers, and customer facing stakeholders
• Partner with engineering leads and researchers to turn ambiguous priorities into concrete, sequenced plans
• Keep leadership informed on progress, risk, and delivery timelines
• Instill a culture of shipping reliably

Required qualifications

• Experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, or Technical Program Manager at a fast moving software or AI company
• Comfort reading technical specs, architecture docs, or PRs well enough to follow the conversation
• Track record of holding technical teams accountable to deadlines without being their manager
• Strong organizational instincts and excellent communication skills across technical and non technical stakeholders
• A natural ability to build trust and rapport with engineers and researchers
• Comfort operating in ambiguity at an early stage startup with a small, fast moving team
• Bias toward action and follow through

Nice to have

• Experience supporting teams with live enterprise customers and real SLAs and commitments
• Prior experience as a software engineer or in a hands on technical role before moving into program or project management
• Familiarity with AI and ML product development cycles

Benefits

• Comp is competitive against major LLM frontier lab packages
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible working arrangements
• Conference attendance and publication support

About the company

Autoscience Institute creates AI systems that autonomously conduct AI research. The team works to automate scientific discovery.