Technical Program Manager, Discovery

Responsibilities

• Manage Discovery's compute planning across supervised learning (SL), reinforcement learning (RL), and sandboxing workloads, including forecasting, allocation, prioritization, and efficiency improvements. Partner with central compute planning to ensure Discovery's needs are represented and met.
• Monitor the health of scientific RL environments (quality, reward integrity, failure rates) and drive issues to resolution.
• Expedite the external vendor pipeline for RL environments, including quality review, reward design, and production integration.
• Work with research teams across life sciences, STEM, and other scientific domains to translate research goals into roadmaps that advance AI scientist capabilities.
• Establish processes and frameworks that bring structure to an unstructured research setting without slowing researchers down.
• Collaborate with research leads, infrastructure engineers, and data operations to identify blockers, prioritize competing needs, and make technical trade-off decisions.

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Have a background in ML engineering, ML research, or STEM R&D before transitioning to technical program management
• Have deep, hands-on experience with ML training pipelines, RLHF systems, and large-scale data infrastructure in production.
• Have a track record of building execution plans and inventing high-leverage processes that reduce operational overhead and let researchers focus on research.
• Are a fast learner who builds deep contextual understanding in unfamiliar technical domains and can contribute meaningfully to discussions with researchers.
• Are resourceful, high-agency, and able to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities to drive progress in a fast-moving research setting
• Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior technical staff through clarity, competence, and consistent delivery.
• Are excited about the potential for AI to accelerate scientific discovery

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$365,000 - $435,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.