Program Manager
Sakana AI · Tokyo
Frontier labonsite
At a glance
Highlights
- Run research operations for RSI Lab building self-improving AI systems.
- Own budgets, schedules and tracking for frontier AI research projects.
- Report research progress directly to CEO and leadership team.
Ideal candidate
A bilingual operator with AI/ML fluency who thrives driving execution across researchers and external partners. You care about clearing the path so frontier research moves at maximum velocity.
Requirements
- Understands AI/ML research well enough for technical conversations with researchers
- Comfortable collaborating in Japanese and English, including negotiation and documents
- Experience in budget management, project management, or external negotiation
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders in complex environments
Lab profile
About Sakana AI
Tokyo AI lab building nature-inspired generative AI, LLMs and recursive self-improving systems for enterprise use.
What they build
- Sakana Chat
- Sakana Marlin
- Sakana Fugu
Known for
- Collective intelligence
- Model orchestration
- Recursive self-improvement
- Large language model development
Key facts
- Founded in 2023
- Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
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