Head of AI Research / Machine Learning

Our client is a remote-first, globally distributed team that believes great people do their best work when given the freedom to work where and when they’re most productive. No fixed schedules, no office boundaries—just trust, ownership, and the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world. If you’re looking for the freedom to shape your work around your life while working with talented people across the globe, you’ll feel right at home here. Our client is a technology company developing advanced AI-powered software products and is looking for a senior technical leader to drive its machine learning research and production AI capabilities. Job Responsibilities Define and drive the  AI and machine learning research roadmap , covering areas such as reasoning, memory, planning and intelligent workflow execution.

Evaluate whether to develop new model architectures internally or adapt suitable  open-source and commercial foundation models .

Develop robust  model evaluation frameworks  covering accuracy, usefulness, reliability, safety and behaviour in real-world environments.

Establish technical approaches for  model alignment, safety controls and guardrails  within production AI systems.

Research and evaluate advanced techniques including  retrieval-augmented methods, mixture-of-experts, model distillation, multi-agent systems and multimodal models .

Partner closely with product, machine learning and application engineering teams to translate research capabilities into deployable features.

Guide key technical decisions involving  model architecture, training, inference and production deployment .

Establish high technical standards for research quality, experimentation, evaluation and long-term machine learning system performance.

Job Requirements Possess Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Extensive hands-on experience developing, training or improving  machine learning systems deployed in production environments .

Strong proficiency in  Python and PyTorch and/or JAX , with experience working with GPU-based model training and inference.

Deep understanding of  model behaviour, evaluation, failure modes, robustness and technical trade-offs  in complex AI systems.

Strong hands-on technical orientation with the ability to make high-impact research and engineering decisions independently in ambiguous environments.

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