Director of Research, Agentic AI

📋 Description

• Define and own the applied research roadmap across adaptive routing, memory, agent observability
• Track emerging model architectures and specialized, domain-tuned model approaches, and translate
• Keep the research agenda tightly coupled to product outcomes.
• Grow the Applied Research team, hiring and mentoring research scientists and engineers.
• Establish the team's operating rhythm for scoping research questions, running and evaluating
• Represent Applied Research in cross-functional planning cycles and make the case for headcount and

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in applied ML/AI research or research-adjacent engineering, including experience leading
• Deep, hands-on expertise in at least two of: LLM routing and model selection, retrieval and memory
• A track record of shipping research into production systems.
• Fluency with the current agentic AI landscape: reasoning, planning, tool use, long-horizon memory
• Strong technical communication, able to defend a research agenda to engineering leaders, product

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits including Employee Assistance Program, Local Employee Meetups, and
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses.
• Bonus eligibility based on company and individual performance.
• Equity compensation including grants upon hire and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program.