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Project Manager

Autoscience · San Mateo · On-site

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About Autoscience

Autoscience builds AI systems that train state-of-the-art models for frontier and applied AI labs. Backed by General Catalyst.

About the role

Own program status across engineering and research workstreams, proactively identifying risks and unblocking progress before they threaten a milestone Translate customer commitments into clear internal priorities and timelines

What they're looking for

  • Experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, or Technical Program Manager at a fast moving software or AI company
  • Comfort reading technical specs, architecture docs, or PRs well enough to follow the conversation
  • Track record of holding technical teams accountable to deadlines without being their manager
  • Strong organizational instincts and excellent communication skills across technical and non technical stakeholders
  • A natural ability to build trust and rapport with engineers and researchers
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity at an early stage startup with a small, fast moving team
More about this role

At Autoscience Institute, we create AI systems that autonomously conduct AI research. Recently, we announced the first AI agent to autonomously create peer-reviewed literature (ICLR 2025 Workshops). We are passionate about pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and contributing to groundbreaking advancements in the field.

This is a full time role for a Project Manager located in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on site.

With paying enterprise customers now on the platform, this role exists to keep our engineering and research teams shipping clean, reliable work on schedule. The person in this role needs to be technical enough to follow architecture discussions and design docs, but is focused on execution, not code. You'll be the person the team trusts to turn ambiguous priorities into a real plan and hold everyone accountable to it.

Own program status across engineering and research workstreams, proactively identifying risks and unblocking progress before they threaten a milestone

Translate customer commitments into clear internal priorities and timelines

Act as a technical bridge between engineers, researchers, and customer facing stakeholders

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