VP of Research, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇲🇱 Mali – Remote

💵 $225k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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Next Step Systems - National IT Recruiting Firm

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

👥 HR Tech

B2B • HR Tech

Next Step Systems is a national IT recruiting firm that specializes in placing a wide range of information technology professionals in permanent full-time positions across the U. S. Their expertise includes various disciplines such as programmers, software engineers, network engineers, cloud engineers, and SAP specialists. Established in 1995, the company is committed to quality and customer service, continually expanding its capabilities through strategic acquisitions, like the recent one of Parallel Partners, to enhance their service offerings to clients and job seekers.

📋 Description

• Set and evolve the research direction for core intelligence, including context representation, memory, reasoning, planning, and orchestration • Decide when to design new model architectures versus adapting or leveraging frontier open-source or commercial models • Define evaluation frameworks measuring real-world usefulness, robustness, safety, and long-term behavior • Own alignment, safety, and guardrail strategy as first-class product concerns • Guide exploration of retrieval-augmented training, mixture-of-experts, distillation, multi-agent orchestration, and multimodal systems • Shape early product intelligence direction in close partnership with product and application engineering • Set the technical bar for research rigor, judgment, and taste across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience building or evolving real Machine Learning (ML) systems used in production • Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required • Strong technical judgment around model behavior, failure modes, and long-horizon trade-offs • A builder’s mindset, caring about systems that work in the real world • Comfortable making irreversible or high-impact decisions with incomplete information • Obsession with evaluation, correctness, and how systems behave over time • High ownership mentality; operating as a founder, not a manager • Experience with GPU-based training and inference systems • JAX, Python, and PyTorch proficiency • Must be willing to take a 60 minute coding assessment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Savings Plan Options • PTO