Technical Program Manager, Catalysis

SandboxAQ Inc.

Job Overview

Location

United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end execution of catalysis validation programs, including campaign sequencing, external partner SOWs, sample logistics, data ingestion timelines, and milestone tracking against customer and vertical commitments.
• Manage relationships and deliverables with external validation partners such as high-throughput experimentation labs, abatement OEMs, sensor manufacturers, precursor suppliers, and equipment OEMs, including contracting, deliverable acceptance, and renew/expand/exit recommendations.
• Coordinate internal hand-offs between Research Scientists, Computational/ML Scientists, Data Generation teams, and Platform Engineering to ensure validation results are captured, fed back into Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), and inform subsequent campaign cycles.
• Operationalize the design-test-make-deploy pipeline for catalysis, establishing data governance, provenance, and reproducibility standards aligned with regulatory and customer reporting expectations.
• Drive trade-offs between risk, schedule, and resources in collaboration with the Vertical Lead and Product teams, escalating critical decisions to AISim leadership when necessary.
• Develop and maintain operational cadence for experimental campaigns, ensuring alignment across computational modeling, machine learning, and experimental validation workflows.
• Translate complex technical results into executive and external narratives that meet compliance-grade reporting standards for government, regulated industry, or large enterprise customers.
• Build scalable processes and metrics to convert promising technical discoveries into validated industrial outcomes in high-purity chemical production, emissions treatment, and advanced sensing applications.
• Serve as a key operational partner to senior scientific leadership, enabling rapid decision-making, cross-functional alignment, and scalable execution of catalysis programs.
• Ensure all program activities comply with U.S. Government contractual requirements, including documentation, reporting, and data handling protocols.
• Support the scaling of validation infrastructure from project-specific engagements to repeatable, platform-level workflows that support broader commercialization goals.
• Maintain technical fluency in catalysis, materials science, or chemical engineering to critically evaluate experimental plans and interpret high-level results.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate machine-learned force fields, DFT-derived datasets, or other computational catalysis workflows into validation pipelines.
• Uphold SandboxAQ’s culture of creativity, collaboration, and impact by fostering a disciplined yet agile operational environment for scientific innovation.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years managing applied R&D or scientific validation programs, ideally at the intersection of computational and experimental workflows
• Hands-on experience coordinating multi-party experimental validation campaigns (industrial labs, university partners, OEM testbeds), including SOW negotiation and sample/data logistics
• Technical fluency in catalysis, materials science, or chemical engineering sufficient to challenge experimental plans and interpret high-level results
• Track record of running compliance-grade reporting cadences (government, regulated industry, or large enterprise customer) and translating technical results into executive and external narratives
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field; advanced degree strongly preferred
• Must be a U.S. Person (Permanent Resident or Citizen) due to U.S. Government contractual requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus equity and performance-based incentives
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with company match; generous parental leave
• Flexible hybrid work arrangements, generous PTO, and a culture that respects focus time and recovery
• Direct exposure to CHIPS Act-funded programs, senior scientific and executive leadership, mentorship, and dedicated learning budgets for professional growth

Skills & Technologies

Hybrid

Degree Required

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About SandboxAQ Inc.

SandboxAQ is an enterprise AI company spun out of Alphabet in 2022, focused on applying large quantitative models to solve complex problems in cybersecurity, encryption, sensing, and simulation. Its software and hardware solutions combine AI with quantum-inspired methods to help government and Fortune 500 clients secure data, accelerate materials discovery, and optimize sensing for healthcare and navigation. Based in Palo Alto with global offices, the company partners with large systems integrators and cloud vendors to deploy scalable, physics-aware AI platforms for defense, life sciences, and financial services organizations.

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