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Strategic Project Lead

Compensation
$150,000–$300,000/year

Job Description

ABOUT ABUNDANT

As the need for scaling data becomes the core bottleneck to progress, moving from general knowledge to domain expertise, and from chatbots to agents. Abundant is solving this by designing and operating simulation infrastructure where next-generation models learn to reason and solve complex problems.

Our team is composed of high-impact former founders, ML engineers, roboticists, and data leads from companies like Waymo and Google, with experience deploying models at 1B user scale. We partner with a majority of the top AI labs, frontier startups, and F500 enterprises to enable AGI, ASI, and physical intelligence.

THE ROLE

Own end-to-end execution of Abundant’s most critical projects and owning the relationships internally/externally. Translate ambiguous research requirements into structured workflows, manage distributed expert teams, and deliver flawless results under tight timelines. This is a founding-level operations role with outsized ownership.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Own project delivery end-to-end — scoping, design, contributor ops, QA, and handoff to AI lab partners

  • Build and manage relationships with researchers at frontier labs

  • Recruit, scale, and run distributed teams of domain experts — sourcing, performance, quality, engagement

  • Partner closely with Talent Acquisition (TA) and the scale team to develop and execute sourcing and hiring strategies for distributed expert teams.

  • Drive project-specific research scoping — Collaborate with AI lab partners and internal researchers to define project boundaries and strategic direction.

  • Operationalize ambiguous research requirements — Translate frontier lab needs into structured workflows and scalable execution plans.

WHO YOU ARE

  • Relentless executor — you have extreme agency and drive; when you see a problem you fix it, when a path doesn’t exist you create one

  • Thrive in chaos — ambiguity energizes you; you’ve built systems and processes from nothing in fast-moving environments

  • High-autonomy track record — experience in operations, consulting, or program management where you owned outcomes, not just tasks

  • Technically fluent — you understand software systems and data pipelines well enough to earn credibility with engineers

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Job Details

Category
Sales & Marketing
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
Compensation
$150,000 - $300,000 per year

About Abundant

Hello! 👋 We are a team of former ML engineers, founders, roboticists and ops leads who obsess about data and its impact on safe, reliable AI. We specialize in creating environments and datasets for RL by leveraging our experience in simulation and model training. By the numbers: • Powering 3 of the top 6 global AI labs and multiple Fortune 500 enterprises • Billions of training tokens generated each month, 2x month over month • Exclusive, global network of over 500 domain experts We believe humans are inherently creative, and thrive by pushing the frontier. We are working towards an abundant future--one where everyone has access to infinite intelligence, services and goods. Based in San Francisco, CA. We enjoy good food and good company. -- more info below -- Abundant is building the NVIDIA of training data. AI models rely on two fundamental ingredients: compute and data. NVIDIA, the leader in compute, has a peak market cap of $5T and generated $130B in revenue last year as the need for scaling compute has exploded. We believe the need to scale data is just beginning, as we move beyond SFT and human supervision to RL and Learning from Experience. Our founding team consists of second-time founders, ML engineers and data leads from Waymo, Google, Meta and AWS. Our team has previously collaborated with DeepMind to classify hate speech in YouTube videos, trained SOTA models for self-driving, and scaled data pipelines with thousands of human annotators. Our pioneering work in human computation, synthetic data, imitation learning and RL give us a solid advantage in delivering results to our customers. Why now? Training data is more important and more scarce than ever before. Scaling laws dictate that linear improvement in model performance demands an exponential increase in training data. But there is only one World Wide Web and most of it has already been trained on. The next advances will require new, diverse, and high-quality datasets, making training data more important and scarce than ever before. What happens if we succeed? Abundant will be the core enabler for AGI and beyond. Most of the challenges in model training are already solved. What’s missing is the data necessary to move from general knowledge to domain expertise; from chatbots to agents; and from digital intelligence to physical AI. Ask any AI researcher or roboticist: the core bottleneck to progress is the availability of data, i.e. “abundant data”. Abundant works with the most advanced AI labs and startups, as well as F500 enterprises.

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