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Head of Research (AI)

Brazil🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-07
Remote

Core

Lead scientific strategy and hands-on R&D for foundation models focused on relational and graph-structured data to support high-stakes enterprise applications.

Role type

Senior IC research leader (Head of Research)

Builds

Production-ready graph learning models and scalable inference systems

Domain

AI/ML, Graph Learning, Relational Data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Graph Neural Networks, Representation Learning, Self-supervised learning, Python, PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric, Distributed training, Software engineering fundamentals, Team leadership

Preferred skills

Contrastive learning, Distributed inference, Open-source contributions, Publications at NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the research roadmap for foundation models focused on relational data; Design and implement state-of-the-art Graph Neural Networks for large-scale relational datasets; Partner with product engineering and MLOps teams to transition research models into scalable, reliable batch and online inference systems; Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of research scientists and engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership