Director / Senior Director, AI x Lab Integration
Core
Lead the AI x Lab Integration team to develop reasoning models that translate scientific intent into executable experiments, diagnose failures, and adapt protocols based on real laboratory constraints.
Role type
Senior Director, hands-on research leadership
Builds
AI capabilities for automated laboratories, scientific agents, and closed-loop experimentation
Domain
AI for Science / Laboratory Automation
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
PhD in ML/CS/Robotics/Computational Science, leading original AI research, building AI for automated labs, leading research teams, engaging with experimental scientists, hands-on technical leadership
Preferred skills
foundation models, post-training, reinforcement learning, agent learning, procedural reasoning, program synthesis, causal reasoning, learning from expert demonstrations, domain expertise in biology/chemistry/materials science
Technologies
LLMs, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, tool use
Responsibilities
Set the research agenda for protocol understanding and intent-to-protocol generation; Partner with scientists to turn expert feedback into model improvements; Lead research in post-training methods for laboratory reasoning; Establish rigorous capability evaluations for scientific correctness and execution; Hire, mentor, and lead scientists and research engineers
Seniority
Senior Director, hands-on IC with team leadership
