# Product Lead, Foundational Models and Post-Training

**Company:** [Abridge](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/abridge)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $250k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Fine-Tuning, Preference Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, Model Evaluation, Inference, Experimentation, Production Monitoring, Model Routing, Distillation, Python, Data Strategy
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Leads product strategy for foundation models and post-training, translating ML research into safe, scalable healthcare products. Requires 7+ years of product experience and strong knowledge of model development, evaluation, inference, and production delivery.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Set product strategy for Abridge’s foundation-model family, balancing capability, quality, latency, cost, safety, and controllability.
- Define hypotheses, milestones, decision gates, and success metrics to move models from research experiments through shadow mode into production.
- Shape the use of de-identified conversations, final notes, clinician edits, EHR context, and care actions as training and feedback signals with Data, Privacy, Security, and Clinical teams.
- Establish frameworks for choosing frontier models, open models, prompted workflows, or Abridge-trained models based on quality, serving cost, latency, control, and strategic value.
- Partner with Evals on product-relevant capabilities, failure modes, and model-promotion criteria.
- Convert production failures, clinician feedback, edit behavior, and product needs into training priorities and measurable user and business outcomes.
- Align ML Science, ML Engineering, Product Engineering, Clinical Science, Data, Evals, and product teams around priorities, ownership, interfaces, and dependencies.
- Communicate complex research and product strategy to executives and cross-functional teams.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of product management or closely related experience, including substantial ownership of ML-powered products, model platforms, or AI infrastructure.
- Track record of turning ambiguous technical capabilities into shipped products and measurable user or business outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of the modern model-development lifecycle, including data strategy, fine-tuning, preference optimization, evaluation, inference, experimentation, and production monitoring.
- Technical judgment to reason with ML scientists and engineers about training objectives, reward design, data quality, model selection, scaling, latency, and serving cost.
- Strong product judgment regarding proprietary models versus external models or conventional systems.
- Experience creating clarity across multiple teams, defining decision rights, sequencing dependencies, resolving disagreements, and maintaining execution speed.
- High bar for evidence, safety, and trust, including understanding of escalation, abstention, and human-review paths for clinical AI.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, preference optimization, distillation, model routing, or domain-adaptive pretraining.
- Experience managing portfolios spanning frontier APIs, open-source models, and in-house models.
- Experience with human-feedback or expert-annotation systems where feedback is sparse, subjective, or expensive.
- Experience shipping AI in healthcare, life sciences, or another safety-critical and regulated domain.
- Experience with clinical documentation, medical reasoning, agentic workflows, or longitudinal context.
- Experience partnering with research teams on high-compute bets requiring staged evidence before scaling investment.

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