VP of Research, Machine Learning

BJAK

VP of Research at A1 leading machine learning systems and AI intelligence. Setting research direction, evaluation frameworks, and guiding multiple AI techniques.

Posted 4/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇸🇬 SingaporeLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set and evolve the research direction for A1’s 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 that measure real-world usefulness, robustness, safety, and long-term behavior – not benchmark vanity.
Own alignment, safety, and guardrail strategy as first-class product concerns.
Guide exploration of frontier techniques such as:
retrieval-augmented training
mixture-of-experts
distillation
multi-agent orchestration
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

What you’ll need

Deep experience building or evolving real machine learning systems used in production.
Strong technical judgment around model behavior, failure modes, and long-horizon trade-offs.
A builder’s mindset: you care about systems that work in the real world, not just ideas.
Comfortable making irreversible or high-impact decisions with incomplete information.
Obsession with evaluation, correctness, and how systems behave over time.
High ownership mentality — you operate as a founder, not a manager.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningmodel architecturesevaluation frameworksretrieval-augmented trainingmixture-of-expertsdistillationmulti-agent orchestrationmultimodal systems

Soft Skills

technical judgmentbuilder's mindsetdecision-makingevaluation obsessionhigh ownership mentality