Research Technical Program Manager
Afterquery · San Francisco
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## Research Technical Program Manager ### About AfterQuery AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve frontier AI labs with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models—making expertise that once took a lifetime available to anyone who needs it. We’re a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI (YC’s fastest unicorn, valued at $3.2B). Based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator, with angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI. ### Why Apply - **Massive opportunity**: YC’s fastest unicorn ($3.2B) and growing fast - **Founding impact**: Own and architect core infrastructure systems powering the platform - **Equity & growth**: Competitive salary and meaningful equity; shape the engineering org and lead major technical initiatives - **Strong team**: Founding team experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, Morgan Stanley, and more ### Overview Your job is to make ambitious research programs move. You will own execution across **post-training**, **enterprise post-training**, **fellowships**, **evaluation releases**, and **partner research**. You’ll 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. ### Responsibilities - 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 (experiment progress, risks, blockers, partner dependencies, upcoming releases) ### Required Qualifications - **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 skills; ability to turn messy technical information into clear decisions and next steps ### Company Benefits (for eligible employees) - Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental - 401(k) with Employer Match - Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend - Monthly Wellness Stipend - Commute Covered AfterQuery is an **equal opportunity employer** committed to a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available as required by law.
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