Research Product Manager (RPM)

Abundant•San Francisco, CA

3d•$150,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Abundant is seeking a Research Product Manager (RPM) to join their team. This role is unique to Abundant, focusing on being a PM of the model itself, rather than a traditional application or feature. The RPM will design and implement model capabilities within AI labs, data labs, or other research organizations. This is a founding-level role with significant ownership and impact. Abundant is solving the bottleneck of scaling data by designing and operating simulation infrastructure where next-generation models learn to reason and solve complex problems. The team consists of experienced individuals from companies like Waymo and Google, with expertise in deploying models at scale.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.