Technical Program Manager

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs Fortune 500 companies and startups. Weve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.

Were looking for a Technical Program Manager to own complex time-sensitive data and evaluation programs for frontier AI labs data vendors and internal teams. Youll turn ambiguous technical asks into executable programs coordinate the people and dependencies required to deliver them and ensure the resulting data is genuinely useful for evaluating and improving LLMs and agents. Youll also manage vendors and build the processes tooling and operating rhythms that allow HUD to deliver reliably at increasing scale.

• Own data and evaluation programs end-to-end from initial scoping and requirements gathering through production quality assurance delivery and retrospective

• Translate ambiguous requests from AI labs and internal teams into clear specifications such as milestones owners dependencies acceptance criteria etc.

• Maintain and improve data quality procedures using both quantitative signals and qualitative inspection including analyzing task coverage difficulty reward distributions etc.

• Maintain and improve delivery pipelines at scale which includes managing external vendors throughout the delivery lifecycle

• Streamline the logistics behind data production and evaluation programs by improving workflows documentation automation and cross-functional handoffs

• Partner with research platform marketplace teams to translate learnings and feedback into product improvements

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Experience owning complex technical programs in AI/ML data operations support engineering applied research forward-deployed engineering or a similarly cross-functional environment

• Strong quantitative and qualitative judgment about datayou can move between aggregate metrics and individual examples to determine whether a dataset or evaluation is useful reliable and representative

• Experience maintaining and improving complex processes especially within project delivery or data contexts

• Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems maintain momentum as requirements change and make sound tradeoffs without waiting for a perfect specification

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to turn messy technical information into clear decisions owners and next steps

Strong candidates may also:

• Experience with RLHF reinforcement-learning environments agent evaluations human-in-the-loop data pipelines annotation or expert data collection

• Experience supporting frontier AI labs technical enterprise customers or research teams with urgent and evolving requirements

• Early-stage startup experience with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments

We prioritize technical aptitude and learning potential over years of experience. Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they dont meet all criteria.

• Team Size: 25 people currently mostly full-time in-person but some remote.

• Our team: Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI ILO IPhO) serial AI startup founders and researchers with publications at ICLR NeurIPS etc.

• Company stage: We have 8 figures in funding and are scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.

• Employment: Full-time.

• Location: We have offices in San Francisco or Singapore but are open to remote candidates who can work hours that 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones.

• Visa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.

• Timeline: Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.

• Competitive compensation

• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical dental and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)

• Lunch and dinner when youre in the office (in-office employees)

• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Years Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays

• Other perks including an Equinox membership 401k and commuter benefits (US employees)

• Unlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT Claude Code Cursor etc. *By unlimited we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.

Due to high volume we may not actively respond to every application but feel free to contact us at or elsewhere if we missed your application!

Required Experience:

IC