Program Manager, Research

FirstPrinciples is building AI to accelerate scientific discovery. Our core product is the Theo Platform, a research environment built to help researchers iterate faster, validate rigorously, and reach verified results they can trust.

We're a fast-growing, remote-first team of builders, researchers, engineers, and thinkers working across Canada, the US, the UK, and expanding globally. What brings us together is a shared curiosity about how the universe works, and a belief that we can build systems that help us explore it more effectively.

We spend our time working on questions that don't have clear answers, like how to design AI that can reason through scientific problems, and how the scientific process as a whole might evolve. This is work that sits somewhere between creativity and rigorous thinking, and often requires comfort with ambiguity and iteration. If you're someone who enjoys tackling big, abstract problems and exploring ideas that don't yet have a defined path forward, you'll likely find the work here interesting.

We’re building AI systems at the frontier of scientific discovery, which means research is fundamental to our product advantage. But great research is not just about generating interesting ideas, it’s about directing our time, talent, and compute toward the work most likely to create meaningful scientific and product progress.

This role exists to bring strong product discipline to research execution. You’ll help researchers turn open-ended exploration into clearly framed bets, define how we measure progress and ROI, and create the operating rhythms that let us learn quickly. You’ll push promising work forward with urgency, surface weak signals early, and help teams change direction when an approach is no longer earning its investment.

Your impact will help Research maximize its pace in the organization - more ambitious in what it pursues, more rigorous in how it evaluates progress, and accountable for turning research investment into real product capabilities and breakthroughs.