Member of Technical Staff, Product Manager (Research)

About Us

We are a small team of researchers and engineers focused on pushing the frontier of what agents are capable of. We believe the next leap in agent performance will come not from bigger general models, but from specialization and continual learning: agents that get better at their specific job the more they do it. We build the systems that make this possible, turning real-world usage into lasting improvement.

Summary

We are looking for a technical product manager to run our research program. You will turn research goals into a plan the team can execute, keep that plan current as results come in, and make sure the work that matters gets done on time. You will connect research to the product and to the design partners who use it, so that what we learn in experiments reaches customers and what customers need shapes the research. You will work closely with our research leads, the VP of Product, and the co founders.

Responsibilities

• Own the research plan: milestones, checkpoints, and the projects behind each one.
• Run the planning and replanning cycle with the research leads, and keep Linear an accurate picture of what is in flight.
• Track experiments and results, and write clear updates on what worked, what did not, and what we do next.
• Find what is blocking researchers, whether compute, data, infrastructure, or a decision, and get it cleared.
• Plan GPU capacity with the team so that the most important runs get the compute they need.
• Turn research results into product requirements, and bring design partner needs back to the research team.
• Prepare research for customers and for launches, including evaluation reports, demos, and technical write ups.
• Work with the forward deployed team to make sure what we promise partners is something research can deliver.
• Keep the bar high on process without slowing researchers down.

Qualifications

• Hands on experience in ML research or engineering, as a researcher, engineer, or technical program or product manager working closely with research teams.
• Enough depth to read a paper, follow an experiment, and ask the question that changes the plan.
• A track record of running complex technical programs with many dependencies to a clear outcome.
• Experience with LLM training, post-training, evaluation, or agents.
• Strong written communication. You can explain a result to a researcher, a customer, and an investor.
• Judgment about what matters most when everything is urgent, and the confidence to say so.
• Comfort with ambiguity at a very early company.

Nice to Have

• Program or product experience on a research team at a frontier lab.
• A research background, such as a PhD or publications in machine learning.
• Experience bringing research into production with enterprise customers.
• Experience planning and managing GPU compute.