Research Program Manager

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Architecting and managing a portfolio of research initiatives across neural audio codecs, generative models, and multimodal speech systems
• - Developing strategic roadmaps that align research objectives with company goals, identifying dependencies and critical paths while maintaining flexibility for scientific exploration
• - Orchestrating collaboration between research teams, ensuring efficient knowledge sharing and preventing duplicate efforts across related projects
• - Building and maintaining research infrastructure that enables rapid experimentation, including data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and deployment systems
• - Creating processes that balance our researchers'' need for creative freedom with the imperative to validate ideas quickly and scale successful approaches
• - Establishing clear success metrics and experimental frameworks that help teams rapidly iterate while maintaining scientific rigor
• - Managing relationships with external partners, from academic collaborators to compute infrastructure providers
• - Ensuring research outputs are properly documented, replicated, and positioned for eventual productization

Required Skills

• - Deep familiarity with machine learning research processes and best practices, particularly in speech/audio or related fields
• - Proven track record of successfully delivering complex technical programs with multiple concurrent workstreams
• - Experience building and managing research infrastructure, including compute resources, data pipelines, and evaluation frameworks
• - Strong technical background that enables effective communication with research scientists and understanding of ML system requirements
• - Demonstrated ability to create and implement processes that accelerate research while maintaining scientific rigor
• - History of fostering collaboration across teams and establishing effective knowledge sharing practices
• - Experience with agile methodologies adapted for research environments
• - Strong analytical skills for evaluating project health, resource allocation, and strategic alignment
• - Excellent communication abilities for articulating technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

Benefits

• - Offers Equity
• - Offers Bonus