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Head of Research

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $50,000–$50,000🗓 2025-09-24 → 2026-09-27

Core

Define and execute the research agenda to make AI agents more reliable and capable, focusing on planning, orchestration, and safety.

Role type

Head of Applied Research (AI Agents)

Builds

Applied research organization and production-ready agent systems

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Agent Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Applied ML/NLP research leadership, LLM and agent internals, evaluation framework design, large-scale agent systems orchestration, Python programming, data curation and labeling

Preferred skills

Publications or open-source contributions, patents, early-stage 0→1 experience

Technologies

Python, LLMs, agent planning algorithms, tool orchestration frameworks

Responsibilities

Set research strategy and roadmap for agent planning and tool orchestration; build and mentor a high-caliber research team; design and run rigorous experiments; own the evaluation stack including datasets and benchmarks; develop novel methods and ship reference implementations; collaborate with engineering to transfer research into production

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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