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Lead AI Research Scientist

San Francisco, California, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-08 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a research team to define and execute a 24-month vision for enterprise AI systems, focusing on deterministic planners, self-healing automations, and agent evaluation frameworks.

Role type

Senior IC Lead AI Research Scientist

Builds

Enterprise AI systems, automated agent building, and production-ready reference architectures

Domain

Enterprise AI, Agentic workflows, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

Leading applied research teams, PyTorch/JAX, LLM frameworks, transitioning research to production, peer-reviewed publications, large-scale model training, transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, CUDA, structured/unstructured enterprise data

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, CUDA

Responsibilities

Define a 24-month research roadmap for automated agent building and optimization; Hire, coach, and inspire a team of 10+ applied researchers and interns; Publish peer-reviewed papers and secure patents; Partner with Product and Engineering to productionize prototypes within six months of proof of concept; Engage lighthouse customers to validate research and convert learnings into reference architectures

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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