Principal Applied Science Manager - Foundation Models, Agents & Trust Systems
Core
Lead a team of applied scientists to build foundation models, agentic systems, and tiered enforcement architectures for user safety, marketplace integrity, and risk management.
Role type
Principal Applied Science Manager (Foundation Models & Agents)
Builds
Deep Research agents, foundation behavior models, moderation models, and tiered enforcement systems for high-scale marketplaces.
Domain
Trust and Safety, Risk Management, Foundation Models, Agentic Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Leading applied-science/ML teams, defining scientific and product strategy, translating strategy to large-scale production, making complex technical trade-offs, operating in ambiguous regulatory environments, connecting scientific advances to business outcomes.
Preferred skills
Deep expertise in foundation models, fraud/abuse/risk/cybersecurity, content moderation, multimodal understanding, agentic systems/reasoning, large-scale classification/ranking, advertising/search/commerce domains.
Technologies
Foundation models, agentic systems, retrieval, reasoning, evidence-based decision systems, multi-stage model architectures.
Responsibilities
Develop foundation behavior and moderation models; Build Deep Research agents for complex case investigation; Design tiered enforcement architectures combining models, agents, and human review; Establish scientific foundations for risk scoring and explainability; Mentor senior scientists and build leadership; Influence senior leaders on strategy and architecture.
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
