Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute focused on ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. They are seeking a Technical Program Manager to define and manage programs for their foundational research and research infrastructure teams, ensuring that high-impact work is prioritized and delivered efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Take complex technical programs from idea to delivery: scope the plan and milestones, then keep complex, multi-team work moving efficiently, transparently, and to a high technical bar
- Prioritize across competing demands in partnership with research teams so the teams’ effort lands on the highest-impact work
- Build and maintain compute and resource roadmaps by surfacing bottlenecks and trade-offs, finding ways to accelerate progress and build relationships with potential external partners
- Partner with researchers to package their work effectively to get our research into the hands of people who can act on it by transferring findings, methods, and tools to frontier labs and other stakeholders
- Connect research and engineering with our internal partners in Operations, Events and Communications giving each the timelines, results, and context they need to plan, resource, and communicate our work
Skills
- A strong technical background, either in ML, software engineering, or another scientific or research field, with 4+ years building technical programs from scratch
- Practical domain experience in AI/ML such as coordinating model releases, procuring or managing datasets, or supporting evaluations
- A track record of delivering complex technical programs while managing tradeoffs and strategic priorities
- Have successfully facilitated technology transfer of foundational and applied research into production environments
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Delivery at a frontier AI lab or AI safety institute
- Scientific computing cluster management
- Public storytelling through interactive demos or blog posts
- Supporting hiring processes for technical staff
Benefits
- Location: Remote U.S. or Bay Area in-office. We can sponsor US visas.
- Hours: Full-time. 10% travel may be required.
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