Research Product Manager, Fine-tuning

The role

You will decide which scientific domain capabilities the Lila model should gain and own the roadmap for fine-tuned model variants. You will work with the AI Research team to translate customer needs into training data, evals, and release criteria.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the prioritized backlog of training-capability packages
• Own the roadmap and delivery of fine-tuned Lila model variants
• Coordinate the handoff of validated fine-tunes to the app and platform teams
• Serve as a structured input into the AI Research team's core-model training cadence
• Partner with AI Research to translate prioritized capabilities into requirements
• Represent customer- and commercial-driven capability requests
• Integrate into AI Research sprint planning and standups
• Define and track release/acceptance criteria for new capabilities

Required qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager on ML/AI products
• Experience owning delivery of a model or product variant for external or commercial customers
• Ability to build and defend a prioritized backlog against competing demands
• Strong cross-functional operator comfortable partnering with a research organization
• Track record translating ambiguous or evolving priorities into a clear, sequenced set of deliverables

Nice to have

• Familiarity with capability-based training approaches for LLMs (RL environments, SFT data generation, evals)
• Experience partnering with ML/AI research teams on eval design and release criteria
• Background in a scientific or technical domain relevant to Lila's mission

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science.