Research Technical Program Manager

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$210k–$450k

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Afterquery The Research Technical Program Manager at AfterQuery manages ambitious research programs including post-training and evaluation releases. They translate open-ended research goals into clear plans and keep cross-functional teams aligned to accelerate high-quality research delivery.

Responsibilities

Equity & Growth:
Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.
Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley — work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.
Your job is to make ambitious research programs move. You will own the execution of programs spanning post-training, enterprise post-training, fellowships, evaluation releases, and partner research. You will turn open-ended research goals into clear plans, keep researchers, engineers, SPLs and external partners aligned, and surface the decisions and blockers that matter. This is not a traditional project-management role. You must understand the technical work well enough to reason about experiments, datasets, evaluations, training pipelines, and research tradeoffs. Your impact will come from creating just enough structure for the team to run more programs, make better decisions, and ship high-quality work faster.
Own planning and execution across post-training, enterprise post-training, fellowship, and public evaluation programs.
Translate ambiguous research objectives into milestones, owners, dependencies, success criteria, and decision points.
Maintain a trustworthy view of program health, including experiment progress, risks, blockers, partner dependencies, and upcoming releases.

Qualification

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Required

2-4 years project/program management experience
Experience leading complex technical programs across research, machine learning, engineering, or data organizations
Working knowledge of the LLM development lifecycle, including data creation, SFT, RL-based post-training, and evaluation
Strong communication and an ability to turn messy technical information into clear decisions and next steps
Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees):
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Medical, Vision, Dental
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Wellness Stipend
Monthly - Covers Equinox Membership
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law. We comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the position. We reserve the right to modify this job description as business needs change.

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