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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