16h ago
VP of Research, Machine Learning
United States
✨ $300k-$500k / yearest.
full-timedirector Hybridai-ml
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll own the research direction for a proactive AI system that maintains context and plans actions. You'll define how AI reasons, evaluates, and improves in a high-frequency product, shaping core intelligence and evaluation frameworks. This role offers the chance to work on frontier techniques like mixture-of-experts and multi-agent orchestration.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Set research direction for context, memory, reasoning, and planning.
- Decide between designing new architectures or adapting existing models.
- Define evaluation frameworks for real-world usefulness and safety.
- Own alignment, safety, and guardrail strategy as product concerns.
📋 Requirements
- Deep experience building or evolving machine learning systems used in production.
- Strong technical judgment around model behavior and failure modes.
- A builder's mindset focused on real-world systems, not just ideas.
- High ownership mentality — operate as a founder, not a manager.
✨ Nice to Have
- Experience with mixture-of-experts or multi-agent orchestration.
- Track record of publishing or open-source contributions.
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 🚀 High-impact role shaping a proactive AI product.
- 🧠 Cutting-edge research on frontier techniques.
- 👥 Small, world-class team with high talent density.
- 💰 Competitive equity and compensation package.
📨 Hiring Process
If there appears to be a fit, we'll schedule 3-4 interviews (virtual or onsite) and extend an offer promptly.
🚩 Heads Up
- Role requires a founder mentality but may not offer founder-level equity.
- Vague compensation with no range provided.
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