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Founding AI Research Lead - Agentic AI Lab

Fabrion· Engineering
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San Francisco Bay AreaFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Founding AI Research Lead responsible for owning the research agenda, guiding model design and deployment, and growing a small team within Fabrion’s Agentic AI Lab to develop trusted enterprise AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own the research agenda: model and training design, evaluation protocol, and the publication plan
  • Take models from public benchmark results to live customer shadow deployments, with gates you define and defend
  • Set the benchmark discipline: strong baselines first, published comparables cited, results that survive scrutiny
  • Lead and grow a small team (ML engineer, data engineer, contractors) and pair closely with the founders and platform team
  • Write technical plans internally and papers externally when results warrant it

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience training sequence models, owning the tokenizer, the training loop, and the evaluation, not only fine-tuning through APIs
  • Strong background in at least two of: reinforcement learning (offline and imitation settings), sequence decision modeling, structured or constrained generation, learning from event and log data
  • A track record of shipping research into a product or landing a rigorous benchmark result
  • PhD in machine learning or a closely related field, or an equivalent research record
  • Preferred Tech Stack: PyTorch, the Hugging Face ecosystem, experiment tracking and reproducible training pipelines, modern cloud data warehouses, evaluation harness engineering

Skills

Required:Model training and evaluationReinforcement learning / sequence decision modelingProductized researchLeadership and mentoring
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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