Technical Program Manager, Research

The role

Technical Program Managers will define programs for foundational research and research infrastructure teams. You will take complex technical programs from idea to delivery and build processes, systems, and tooling to help researchers and engineers move faster.

What you will do

• Take complex technical programs from idea to delivery
• Scope plans and milestones
• Keep complex, multi-team work moving efficiently and transparently
• Prioritize across competing demands in partnership with research teams
• Build and maintain compute and resource roadmaps
• Find ways to accelerate progress and build relationships with external partners
• Partner with researchers to package work for transfer to frontier labs and stakeholders
• Connect research and engineering with internal partners in Operations, Events and Communications

Required qualifications

• Strong technical background in ML, software engineering, or another scientific or research field
• 4+ years building technical programs from scratch
• Practical domain experience in AI/ML such as coordinating model releases, procuring or managing datasets, or supporting evaluations
• Track record of delivering complex technical programs while managing tradeoffs and strategic priorities
• Successfully facilitated technology transfer of foundational and applied research into production environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Nice to have

• Delivery at a frontier AI lab or AI safety institute
• Scientific computing cluster management
• Public storytelling through interactive demos or blog posts
• Supporting hiring processes for technical staff

Benefits

• Health Insurance - 94% of Insurance premium paid by Organization commencing within 1 month after your start date
• Retirement - 401(k) plan with up to 2% match
• 25 days Paid Time Off per year, accrued weekly
• Up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year
• Paid Bereavement, Family, Medical and Pregnancy Disability Leave
• Work computer and stipend provided for eligible employees
• Catered lunches and dinners on workdays at our office in Berkeley
• Work-related travel and equipment expenses paid

Before you apply

• We can sponsor US visas

About the company

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. The organization conducts research to address fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) safety challenges.