Head of Research (AI)

📋 Description

• Own and evolve the research roadmap for foundation models focused on relational data, knowledge
• Define the scientific strategy and research priorities, aligning technical exploration with
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of research scientists and engineers.
• Establish a rigorous research process covering hypothesis definition, RFCs, experimentation
• Design and implement state-of-the-art Graph Neural Networks for large-scale relational datasets.
• Solve complex node-, edge-, and graph-level learning problems, including multi-scale embeddings and

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in AI/ML, or a PhD combined with at least 4 years of relevant
• Demonstrated ability to take research concepts, academic papers, or prototypes through to scalable
• Advanced hands-on proficiency in Python and PyTorch.
• Deep experience with graph learning frameworks such as PyTorch Geometric or DGL.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, profiling, reproducibility
• Proven experience leading technical projects, mentoring researchers and engineers, or managing a

🎁 Benefits

• Full-time employment.
• Fully remote working arrangement while being based in Brazil.
• Opportunity to lead the scientific direction of an ambitious AI research function.
• Hands-on exposure to cutting-edge foundation models, graph learning, representation learning, and
• Opportunity to work on high-stakes enterprise decision-making applications with measurable
• Close collaboration with experienced research, data, engineering, MLOps, product, and commercial