Head of Research
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
