Research Product Manager (RPM)

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