Head of Research (AI)
Core
Lead the research function and scale scientific vision for relational foundation models (graphs, databases) to solve high-stakes enterprise prediction problems in Brazil.
Role type
Senior leadership IC / Player-coach Head of Research (via careerplan.io/jobs/348af983-ddaf-4265-bd9f-ace65313d264-head-of-research-ai-at-avra)
Builds
Production-grade graph-native models for credit, fraud, growth, and monitoring decisions
Domain
Enterprise AI / Graph Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Graph Neural Networks (GNN), representation learning, self-supervised learning, Python, PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric, DGL, software engineering fundamentals, team leadership, model deployment in regulated contexts
Preferred skills
Distributed training and inference, contrastive learning, top-tier AI conference publications (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
Responsibilities
Own the research roadmap for Foundation Models, lead and mentor research scientists, design and implement state-of-the-art GNNs, build reproducible training pipelines, productize models for batch and online inference, partner with GTM to define success criteria
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
