CrawlJobs Logo

Research Manager, Foundation Models

runwayml.com Logo

Runway

Location Icon

Location:
United States

Category Icon

Job Type Icon

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary Icon

Salary:

360000.00 - 450000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world. World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Job Responsibility:

  • Manage and grow Runway’s Applied ML Research team to create cutting-edge machine learning tools for AI-based content creation
  • Work with the rest of the engineering organization to oversee the transition from research into production
  • Work with the Product team to initiate and develop research projects that deliver clear user value

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of industry experience as a research scientist in computer vision
  • 1+ year managing teams
  • High emotional intelligence and experience mentoring and supporting the career growth of other researchers
  • Good understanding of how to communicate goals, drive the execution of projects, and inspire through others
  • Experience in translating product and business objectives into technical strategies
  • Deep interest in productionizing state of the art ML research

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 11, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
Job Link Share:

Looking for more opportunities? Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Briefcase Icon

Similar Jobs for Research Manager, Foundation Models

Product Marketing Manager for AI Cloud Providers and Foundation Model Builders

Product Marketing Manager for AI Cloud Providers and Foundation Model Builders –...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
vastdata.com Logo
VAST Data
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 8+ years of proven experience in product or solution marketing within cloud services, AI/ML platforms, large-scale data infrastructure, data storage, operating systems, or related fields, with a strong understanding of 'as-a-Service' GTM models and/or the needs of large-scale AI research and development
  • Deep understanding of infrastructure for cloud service providers and/or large-scale AI training/inference clusters, including multi-tenant architectures, service orchestration, distributed computing, virtualization, containers, and unified file/object storage solutions at petabyte to exabyte scale
  • Familiarity with modern AI/ML data pipelines, the lifecycle of Foundation Models (data ingestion, pre-processing, training, fine-tuning, inference), and analytics workloads, and how they are delivered as cloud services or built in dedicated environments
  • Strong expertise in aligning complex technical solutions like the VAST AI OS with business-driven objectives for both AI Cloud Providers (e.g., service differentiation, new revenue streams, TCO reduction) and Foundation Model Builders (e.g., faster time-to-model, research breakthroughs, efficient scaling, optimized resource utilization)
  • Exceptional communication skills, with proven ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences
  • Demonstrated success developing and executing impactful marketing strategies and campaigns
  • Highly collaborative with a proactive approach to managing cross-functional projects
  • Willingness to travel for customer engagements, industry events, and internal meetings
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Develop and execute strategic go-to-market plans tailored to AI Cloud Providers and Foundation Model Builders for the VAST AI OS
  • Craft compelling, differentiated messaging and positioning for the VAST AI OS that resonates with stakeholders at AI Cloud Providers (product management, service architects, business development) and at organizations building Foundation Models (AI researchers, MLOps engineers, data scientists, infrastructure leads)
  • Conduct market analysis, identifying trends, threats, and opportunities in the AI cloud services, large-scale AI model development, and underlying data infrastructure landscape, relevant to the VAST AI OS
  • Translate complex technical features of the VAST AI OS into clear benefits for AI Cloud Providers (service differentiation, revenue opportunities, TCO) and for Foundation Model Builders (accelerated training, reduced data management overhead, faster iteration cycles, scalable deployment)
  • Serve as an expert resource on architectures for AI cloud services and large-scale model development, including multi-tenancy, service orchestration, distributed training, high-performance data pipelines, and how the VAST AI OS underpins these for AI-as-a-Service and Foundation Model lifecycles, emphasizing unified file and object storage, data protection, compliance, and security
  • Collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering to influence the VAST AI OS roadmap and direction based on the unique requirements of AI Cloud Providers, Foundation Model Builders, and market insights for AI services and model development
  • Create high-impact sales tools, presentations, reference architectures, product demonstrations, webinars, and training materials for the VAST AI OS that effectively communicate technical and business advantages to and through AI Cloud Providers, and directly to organizations building Foundation Models
  • Support partner development, sales teams, and direct engagement efforts with strategic responses to AI Cloud Provider opportunities, Foundation Model initiatives leveraging the VAST AI OS, and joint RFI/RFPs
  • Engage regularly with AI Cloud Providers and key players in the Foundation Model ecosystem to capture insights, validate VAST AI OS positioning, and foster advocacy and joint marketing opportunities
  • Produce influential content for the VAST AI OS including whitepapers, case studies, solution briefs, blogs, and FAQs tailored to AI Cloud Provider and Foundation Model Builder audiences and their respective customers or users
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Strategy and Business Operations Senior Manager

Atlassian is seeking a Strategy and Business Operations Senior Manager to partne...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
https://www.atlassian.com Logo
Atlassian
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience in corporate strategy, product/platform strategy, strategic finance, or similar, and have a foundational understanding of platform and SaaS business models
  • demonstrated experience in contributing to business case development/strategic recommendations from end-to-end
  • proficiency in financial modelling and building revenue and cost drivers
  • experience supporting qualitative and quantitative customer or market research
  • excellent verbal & written communications skills
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Drive and influence the long-term vision for Atlassian's user-facing platform capabilities
  • partner directly with product and go-to-market teams to support the delivery of strategic recommendations and analyses
  • build financial and analytical models to identify measurable insights, exercise sound business judgement, and develop recommendations to influence and drive consensus across functional leaders
  • define appropriate goals/OKRs to track progress against strategic objectives
  • keep a tight pulse on business performance and reporting, including quarterbacking a cross-functional team to diagnose problems when they occur
What we offer
What we offer
  • health coverage
  • paid volunteer days
  • wellness resources
  • bonuses
  • commissions
  • equity
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

AI Application Engineer

As an AI Application Engineer at Rearc, you'll contribute to the technical excel...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
rearc.io Logo
Rearc
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 2+ years of experience in AI engineering, machine learning (ML), or related fields, bringing valuable expertise in building and deploying intelligent systems
  • Strong understanding of state of the art techniques in generative AI, including large language models (LLMs), text generation and other foundation models
  • Familiarity with AI orchestration tools (e.g. LangGraph, CrewAI, Bedrock Agents, smolagents, etc)
  • Experience in fine-tuning, prompt engineering or otherwise adapting generative models for specific use cases
  • Experience with AI model evaluation, including human-in-the-loop and LLM judge paradigms
  • Familiarity with NLP libraries and frameworks
  • Hands-on experience in implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and integrating retrieval systems with generative models
  • Knowledge of at least one vector store or database (e.g. Opensearch, Pinecone, PostgreSQL with pgvector) and techniques for similarity search
  • Familiarity with common data ingestion/ETL patterns for populating knowledge bases
  • Experience with implementing LLM tool calling (either directly, via an orchestration framework, or using Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients)
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Collaborate with Colleagues – Work closely with colleagues to understand customers' business objectives and technical challenges, contributing to the design and development of effective GenAI solutions tailored to client needs
  • Apply GenAI Principles – Utilize modern tools and frameworks like LangGraph, to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable Compound AI systems. Leverage your understanding of AI fundamentals to ensure every project meets rigorous industry and ethical standards
  • Adapt to the latest Technologies & Patterns – continue to research, learn, and stay abreast of the most recent state of the art for AI application development
  • Promote Knowledge Sharing –Bolster our culture of continuous learning by sharing knowledge about AI engineering best practices through blog posts, articles, and internal talks. Support a collaborative environment that fosters shared expertise and ongoing innovation across our community
Read More
Arrow Right

AI Data Manager

This is not a standard data management role; it’s a rare opportunity to be at th...
Location
Location
United States , Palo Alto
Salary
Salary:
140000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year
lumalabs.ai Logo
Luma AI
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI data operations, human data annotation, or a similar data-centric role within a top-tier AI company
  • direct experience translating complex researcher needs into effective data curation and annotation workflows
  • highly adaptable and thrive on cross-functional collaboration, with a proven ability to work across a comprehensive data pipeline, not just within a single vertical like human annotation
  • experience working with vision or multimodal data pipelines
  • a hands-on individual contributor who is driven by the work, not by people management
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Translate researcher needs into actionable data annotation and curation strategies for our SOTA vision, 3D, and audio models
  • own and manage end-to-end data pipelines and annotation workflows, collaborating with external partners and labeling teams to ensure the highest quality data
  • provide horizontal management across multiple data pipelines, ensuring consistency and quality as we expand into new modalities
  • develop innovative data curation strategies, working with a diverse mix of human-annotated, raw, and synthetic data to solve complex model challenges
  • partner directly with researchers to diagnose model performance issues and propose data-driven solutions to improve results
  • define the standards for data quality and annotation excellence, establishing the foundation for how Luma scales its data operations
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Product Manager, SDK & Developer Primitives

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, SDK & Developer Primitives to help d...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
180000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year
temporal.io Logo
Temporal
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • A strong technical foundation and the ability to dive deep with engineers—experience working with developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or infrastructure products is required
  • Hands-on experience writing code in one or more languages (e.g., Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, Rust, etc.)
  • Prior experience building or contributing to developer tools, programming models, or infrastructure abstractions
  • A developer-first mindset and a passion for improving the ergonomics, usability, and clarity of complex systems
  • Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear product requirements and prioritize trade-offs to deliver impact quickly
  • Strong understanding of Product Management fundamentals, including product lifecycle management, market research, roadmap development, prioritization, and translating customer needs into actionable product requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in Product Management, or a hybrid background that includes software engineering and product work
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own and evolve the core programming primitives that make up the Temporal SDKs—ensuring they are consistent, composable, and aligned with the expectations of modern developers
  • Engage deeply with the developer community to understand how real teams use Temporal, where the abstractions help, and where they get in the way
  • Define product strategy and roadmap for Temporal’s SDK and programming model in close collaboration with product, engineering, and key design partners
  • Translate complex technical requirements into simple, usable, and scalable developer experiences
  • Collaborate with teams across SDKs, server, and web UI to ensure a cohesive and forward-looking developer platform
  • Represent the voice of the developer in all product decisions, ensuring the tools we build help users ship reliable systems with less cognitive overhead
What we offer
What we offer
  • Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
  • 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
  • Empower 401K Plan
  • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more
  • $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
  • $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
  • $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
  • $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment)
  • $500 / Year Professional Memberships
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Data Scientist

At Applied Network Solutions (ANS), we bring together some of the most curious m...
Location
Location
United States , Aurora
Salary
Salary:
100000.00 - 165000.00 USD / Year
go-ans.com Logo
Applied Network Solutions
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
  • A bachelor’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience. An associate’s degree plus 12 years of relevant experience may be considered for individuals with in-depth experience that is clearly related to the position
  • Degree must be in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Operations Research, or Computer Science
  • A broader range of degrees will be considered if accompanied by a Certificate in Data Science from an accredited college/university
  • Relevant experience must be in designing/implementing machine learning, data science, advanced analytical algorithms programming (skill in at least one high-level language (e.g., Python)), statistical analysis (e.g. variability, sampling error, inference, hypothesis testing, EDA, application of linear models), data management (e.g. data cleaning and transformation), data mining, data modeling and assessment, artificial intelligence, and/or software engineering. Experience in more than one area is strongly preferred.
  • Devise strategies for extracting meaning and value from large datasets.
  • Make and communicate principled conclusions from data using elements of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and application specific knowledge.
  • Translate practical mission needs and analytic questions related to large datasets into technical requirements and, conversely, assist others with drawing appropriate conclusions from the analysis of such data.
  • Employ some combination (2 or more) of the following areas: 1. Foundations (Mathematical, Computational, Statistical) 2. Data Processing (Data management and curation, data description and visualization, workflow and reproducibility) 3. Modeling, Inference, and Prediction (Data modeling and assessment, domain-specific considerations)
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • plan, analyze, design, develop, test, secure, integrate, implement, operate, and maintain the custom solutions that ANS delivers
What we offer
What we offer
  • Family Medical, Dental (w/ adult orthodontia) and Vision coverage
  • Pet Discount Program
  • PTO (Paid Time Off)
  • Maternity/ Paternity Leave
  • Supplemental Military Leave Pay
  • 11 Paid Holidays
  • 401(k) plan with 6% Company Contribution
  • Generous Professional Development Program
  • 100% Employer paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • 100% Employer paid Life Insurance
Read More
Arrow Right

Tech Lead - Pretraining Team, Wayve Foundation Model

This is a rare opportunity to lead foundational work at the intersection of larg...
Location
Location
United States , Sunnyvale
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
wayve.ai Logo
Wayve
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Leadership in data-centric AI: Experience leading research or engineering teams focused on dataset curation, filtering, or enrichment at scale, particularly for large-scale model pretraining.
  • Contributions to data benchmarks or tools: Involvement in projects like DataComp, LAION, DINO, MOLMO, or equivalent initiatives that define or evaluate pretraining dataset quality.
  • Deep understanding of distributed data processing: Strong working knowledge of frameworks such as Ray, Spark, Dask, or equivalent, and designing scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines.
  • Hands-on deep learning expertise: Strong proficiency in PyTorch and a solid grasp of how data quality, distribution, and structure impact training dynamics and model generalisation.
  • Experimental mindset: Demonstrated ability to run and interpret data-centric experiments (e.g., small-scale trials, ablations) to inform large-scale model training.
  • Collaboration with research: Experience working closely with ML researchers and contributing to experimental design, pretraining strategies, or evaluation design.
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience: Including at least several years in data-heavy, model-driven environments involving deep learning at scale.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead data curation, enrichment, and filtering efforts for large-scale pretraining of embodied models
  • Build and manage distributed data processing and ingestion pipelines across modalities
  • Partner with research teams to run data-centric experiments and influence model training strategy
  • Identify, integrate, and leverage third-party datasets to enhance pretraining and evaluation
  • Manage and mentor a team of engineers and data scientists to deliver scientific and technical impact
What we offer
What we offer
  • Attractive compensation with salary and equity
  • Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
  • A unique position to shape the future of autonomy and tackle the biggest challenge of our time
  • Bespoke learning and development opportunities
  • Relocation support with visa sponsorship
  • Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your time
  • Benefits such as an onsite chef, workplace nursery scheme, private health insurance, therapy, daily yoga, onsite bar, large social budgets, unlimited L&D requests, enhanced parental leave, and more!
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Senior Sponsor Commercial Banking Relationship Manager

Wells Fargo Commercial Banking Middle Market Group is seeking a Senior Relations...
Location
Location
United States , LOS ANGELES; BETHESDA; BOSTON; CHARLOTTE; CHICAGO; HOUSTON
Salary
Salary:
119000.00 - 224000.00 USD / Year
https://www.wellsfargo.com/ Logo
Wells Fargo
Expiration Date
February 26, 2026
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 4+ years of Commercial Banking Relationship Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • Leveraged finance and related activities experience
  • Completion of formal credit training program
  • Intermediate knowledge and understanding of core commercial banking and investment products: deposits, commercial credit, and treasury
  • Experience with underwriting complex credit and debt structure
  • Foundational ability to interpret financial statements, summarize findings and structure credit transactions
  • Experience working with financial modeling
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline driven environment
  • Demonstrated high level of initiative and accountability
  • Ability to build and maintain productive working relationships with internal partners
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Support leadership and senior relationship managers in all aspects of the business, including but not limited to client management, industry research, capital structure, financial modeling, CB and CIB partnership, and database management
  • Provide periodic guidance to junior associate supporting the broader sponsors team
  • Independently develop, retain, and grow complex client relationships
  • Lead or participate in the structuring, modification, and renewal of complex capital markets transactions, and certain other industry specific solutions within Commercial Banking
  • Prepare screening memos to be shared with senior partners around capital markets related transactions
  • Review, understand, and offer the full suite of complex solutions offered by Wells Fargo to commercial and investment banking clients
  • Independently lead or resolve moderately complex initiatives and guide team to meet deliverables within the Commercial Banking Relationship Management group
  • Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve client issues
  • Drive relationship planning activities to deliver the full suite of solutions and maintain sales and pipeline disciplines
  • Support Business Development Representatives in sourcing new Commercial Banking clients
What we offer
What we offer
  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Critical caregiving leave
  • Discounts and savings
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right