Head of AI Research
Head of AI Research
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Job Description
Lead AI research that shapes how AI evaluates AI
Want to pioneer AI supervision systems that ensure powerful models can be safely trusted This leadership role offers a rare chance to solve one of AIs most critical challenges: making AI systems that can effectively evaluate other AI.
Youll join a wellfunded startup backed by top Silicon Valley VCs and led by a team with elite ML research backgrounds from FAIR Meta Reality Labs and quant finance. Their technology is already trusted by OpenAI HP and Fortune 100 companies across education finance and healthcare.
As Head of AI youll lead a team building cuttingedge evaluation systems that leverage memory longcontext reasoning and multimodal capabilities. Your research wont just advance the field it will be immediately implemented in products that solve real enterprise AI safety challenges.
The team has published at top ML conferences (NeurIPS EMNLP ACL) and developed models and benchmarks used by leading AI companies worldwide. Their evaluators already outperform OpenAIs by 18 in hallucination detection.
Your focus:
- Lead a research and ML engineering team developing stateoftheart AI supervision systems
- Solve open research problems in evaluation explainability and robustness
- Set research vision alongside the CTO and establish rigorous research processes
- Guide development of novel benchmarks for SOTA AI systems
- Represent the company through publications speaking and industry relationships
- Build and grow a worldclass technical team
You should have:
- PhD in Computer Science Mathematics Statistics Linguistics or related field
- Strong publication record at top AI conferences (NeurIPS ICML EMNLP ACL)
- Experience conducting empirical NLP research in academic or industry settings
- Deep knowledge of transformer architectures and evaluation frameworks
- Experience training language models in applied or research contexts
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts across different audiences
The package:
- Competitive salary $250K$350K base)
- Meaningful equity in a wellfunded startup
- Performance bonus
- Full health dental and vision coverage
- 401k plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Regular global team off site days
Location preference for NYC or SF with flexibility for exceptional candidates.
If youre passionate about ensuring advanced AI systems can be effectively supervised and evaluated this role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the future of AI safety and deployment.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
