# Research Product Manager (RPM) at Abundant

Research Product Manager (RPM) at Abundant in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $150k–$210k. Posted July 7, 2026.

- Company: Abundant
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $150k–$210k
- Posted: 2026-07-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/abundant/d497409d-f30a-4a34-88cd-ddbaf8d7a6eb/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/research-product-manager-rpm-abundant-42g131

## Description

**ABOUT ABUNDANT**
Abundant is an applied research lab focused on scaling reinforcement learning for safe and reliable agentic capabilities. We are an extremely talent-dense team of researchers, roboticists, founders, and operators whose work includes the Waymo Driver.
**THE ROLE**
Research PM (RPM) is a role unique to Abundant. RPMs are PMs of the model, unlike traditional PMs who own an application or a feature. RPMs design and implement model capabilities, either as part of an AI lab, data lab, or other research organization. This is a founding-level role with outsized ownership.
**WHAT YOU’LL DO**

- **Co-design capabilities of the model**: define areas of improvement for the model, along with the Researcher.

- **Perform literature review**: headroom analysis, identifying recent work in academic and industry circles.

- **Run experiments and benchmarks:** using our internal simulation stack and our open source tooling such as Oddish to define and hillclimb on the vertical.

- **Become the voice of the model user**: Talk to individual users and/or enterprises, in order to deeply understand where models and agents are underperforming, turning these insights into evaluation and training data.

- **Work on data pipelines**: internal tooling to support research operations.

**WHO YOU ARE**

- **Technically fluent**: Deep understanding of evaluations, RL, and how LLMs and Agents work.

- **Research-oriented** — Able to read papers and keep up with SOTA literature.

- **Extreme owner** — You have extreme agency and a founder mentality; you are resourceful and scrappy.

- **Creative problem solver** — You leverage creativity and research skills to design projects from the ground up.

- **Must be highly proficient** with coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code.

 **COMPENSATIONBase Salary**
$150,000 - $210,000
**Cash Bonus**
Sizable performance bonus tied to project and company milestones
**Equity**
Meaningful early-stage grant
**Benefits**
Health, dental, vision + flexible PTO