Thinking Machines Lab

Research Product Manager

San Francisco

H1B sponsorship available$175k-$475kDetected 79 days ago

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About the role

As a Research Product Manager (RPM) at Thinking Machines Lab, you'll play a central role in driving complex, high-impact technical products and programs that span research, infrastructure, and applied.
You'll help turn ambitious ideas into reality by driving cross-functional efforts, maintaining momentum across projects, and creating clarity in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Your work will connect people, ideas, and systems to ensure that our most important research initiatives stay aligned, well-scoped, and moving forward efficiently.

Drive and coordinate large-scale research products and programs, ensuring that complex projects are executed efficiently, transparently, and with scientific excellence.
Collaborate across disciplines - from research and ML infrastructure to legal and business development - ramping up quickly on new domains as needed.
Create and maintain compute and resource roadmaps, identifying bottlenecks, trade-offs, and opportunities to accelerate progress.
Support the integration of new technologies and research insights into production systems and product roadmaps, bridging the gap between frontier research and real-world applications.

Degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, physics, engineering, or similar
Experience in research program management, product management, or similar

we encourage you to apply if you meet some but not all of these:
Masters or PhD in computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, physics, engineering, or similar
Past experience at a frontier or academic research lab, contributing to research in artificial intelligence
Ability to learn new technical domains
Strong technical communication, written and verbal

Thinking Machines Lab's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence.

Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $175,000 - $475,000 USD.

Thinking Machines offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed.

It's for someone who thrives in deeply technical discussions, understands the rhythm of research, can abstract at high-level and get into the weeds, with the ultimate goal of helping the company execute at scale.

While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together.
We sponsor visas.

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