Research Product Manager (RPM)

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

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