# Research Manager at HUD

- Company: HUD
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.hud.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-26
- Apply by: 2026-11-10
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hud/7b78d641-69cc-4c5a-8cd7-276c7229eedd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hud-research-manager/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Research Manager to lead research that makes HUD’s agent training data and evals more useful for improving frontier models. You’ll lead research engineers through ambiguous projects, and turn findings into methods that can be used at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Experience leading technical research projects to completion, from an open question to evidence, a decision, and a working result
- Experience directly managing and mentoring researchers or research engineers while remaining engaged in technical work
- A strong understanding of machine learning and reinforcement learning, including how training objectives, data, and feedback shape model behavior
- Experience with agent training data, evals, benchmarks, synthetic data, or model evaluation infrastructure
- Sound experimental judgment: you can distinguish a useful training signal from a task or metric that only looks convincing
- Strong written communication and the ability to explain methods and findings to researchers, engineers, and external partners

Tags: Engineering & Research