Why This Role Stands Out
This Research Product Manager role at Abundant offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI by directly influencing model capabilities, making it ideal for ambitious individuals with a passion for cutting-edge research and product development. You'll thrive here if you enjoy deep technical problem-solving and want to be at the forefront of AGI and physical intelligence development, with a competitive compensation package of $150k-$210k. Apply now to join a team of top AI talent and drive impactful innovation.
Quick Overview
Job Description
ABOUT ABUNDANT
Abundant is an applied research lab focused on scaling reinforcement learning for safe and reliable agentic capabilities. We are an extremely talent-dense team of researchers, roboticists, founders, and operators whose work includes the Waymo Driver.
THE ROLE
Research PM (RPM) is a role unique to Abundant. RPMs are PMs of the model, unlike traditional PMs who own an application or a feature. RPMs design and implement model capabilities, either as part of an AI lab, data lab, or other research organization. This is a founding-level role with outsized ownership.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Co-design capabilities of the model: define areas of improvement for the model, along with the Researcher.
Perform literature review: headroom analysis, identifying recent work in academic and industry circles.
Run experiments and benchmarks: using our internal simulation stack and our open source tooling such as Oddish to define and hillclimb on the vertical.
Become the voice of the model user: Talk to individual users and/or enterprises, in order to deeply understand where models and agents are underperforming, turning these insights into evaluation and training data.
Work on data pipelines: internal tooling to support research operations.
WHO YOU ARE
Technically fluent: Deep understanding of evaluations, RL, and how LLMs and Agents work.
Research-oriented — Able to read papers and keep up with SOTA literature.
Extreme owner — You have extreme agency and a founder mentality; you are resourceful and scrappy.
Creative problem solver — You leverage creativity and research skills to design projects from the ground up.
Must be highly proficient with coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code.
COMPENSATION
Base Salary
$150,000 - $210,000
Cash Bonus
Sizable performance bonus tied to project and company milestones
Equity
Meaningful early-stage grant
Benefits
Health, dental, vision + flexible PTO