# Research Product Manager, Fine-tuning at Lila Sciences

- Company: Lila Sciences
- What the company does: LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence™. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.lila.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lilasciences/jobs/4339607009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lila-sciences-research-product-manager-fine-tuning/

## About the role

You'll own two connected but distinct areas. First, you'll decide which new scientific domain capabilities the Lila model should gain and how to build them — the right mix of reinforcement-learning environments and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data — prioritized against our Target Product Profiles (TPPs) and customer needs.

## What they're looking for

- Experience as a Product Manager on ML/AI products, ideally with exposure to LLM training, fine-tuning, or RL-based capability development
- Experience owning delivery of a model or product variant for external or commercial customers, including defining data, evals, and release criteria
- Demonstrated ability to build and defend a prioritized backlog against competing scientific, research, and commercial demands
- Strong cross-functional operator, comfortable partnering closely with a research organization (joining sprint planning/standups, not just handing off requirements)
- Track record translating ambiguous or evolving priorities into a clear, sequenced set of deliverables

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