Senior / Staff Technical Program Manager, AI Research

The role

This person will own the integrated execution plan across research, data, GPU infrastructure, and robotic hardware. They will build research roadmaps and coordinate transitions from model training to deployment.

What you will do

• Build the integrated research roadmap.
• Translate project plans into views of experiments, model readiness, and dependencies.
• Coordinate transitions from pre-training to post-training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Synchronize data, compute, and hardware availability.
• Manage resource demand forecasts and scheduling trade-offs.
• Identify cross-team gaps and drive blockers to resolution.
• Surface capacity and staffing risks to research leaders.
• Build lightweight execution rhythms and run program reviews.
• Manage uncertainty between experiments and engineering-readiness milestones.
• Partner with hardware and operations teams to clarify interfaces and release expectations.

Required qualifications

• Significant technical program management experience delivering complex, interdependent work across software, ML, research infrastructure, robotics, or similarly technical organizations.
• Senior or staff-level judgment.
• Strong understanding of the machine learning development lifecycle, including datasets, model training, evaluation, iteration, and moving models into production.
• Ability to build an execution system from an ambiguous starting point.
• Ability to drive progress across teams without direct reporting authority.
• Technical fluency to work with researchers and infrastructure engineers.
• Experience coordinating constrained engineering resources, such as compute capacity, test systems, labs, hardware platforms, or specialized teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Sound judgment regarding coordination and leadership escalation.

Nice to have

• Experience in large-scale model training, foundation models, generative models, computer vision, embodied AI, or robotics.
• Familiarity with GPU clusters, data pipelines, robot testing and evaluation, or hardware/software integration.
• Experience bridging research organizations and customer-facing applied engineering or model release functions.

About the company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. They own the full robotics stack from hardware to foundation world models and have raised over $450M.