CareerPlan

Head of AI Research

New York CityFull-time$400k–$700k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10
On-site · United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Define the research agenda for AI reliability, agentic systems, and enterprise trust within a deterministic verification architecture.

Role type

Principal AI Researcher (Agentic Systems & Trust)

Builds

Production AI systems for high-stakes financial research workflows

Domain

Financial Technology / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Agentic system design, memory architectures, retrieval mechanisms, evaluation frameworks, transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, retrieval-augmented generation, memory-augmented systems, team leadership, technical strategy

Preferred skills

Publications at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL), experience shipping research to production, strong communication skills

Technologies

LLMs, deterministic code pipelines, provenance metadata, semantic layers

Responsibilities

Define research agenda at intersection of AI reliability and enterprise trust; Pioneer agentic architectures for orchestration and reasoning; Advance memory and retrieval for context management; Build evaluation frameworks for agent quality; Ship research to production systems; Build and lead the research team; Collaborate with leadership on technical strategy

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with leadership