Senior Director, Applied AI Research
Snorkel AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $270,000 - $320,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Recruit for and lead a team of applied researchers, setting the team’s culture and setting a high standard for quality and velocity
- Act as the primary link between Research, Product, and Engineering. Oversee the development of experimental POCs to improve workflow efficiencies and ensure these innovations are successfully hardened and integrated into the platform
- Collaborate with academic and industry-leading AI labs to define the data-centric techniques that will help power the next generation of foundation models
- Anticipate the next bottlenecks in the AI data and pivot the team to develop programmatic solutions that address them
- Partner with the Operations team to validate research-driven workflows in real-world production environments, ensuring they scale across diverse and complex domain-specific tasks
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in applied AI, research or machine learning roles, with at least 4+ years of experience managing technical teams
- A player coach who is willing to be hands-on with coding, research, customer-facing engagements
- A proven track record of thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, comfortable managing competing priorities across cross-functional stakeholders in Product, Engineering, and GTM
- Enjoys solving real-world problems in the data space and bridging research and production
- Strong, practical experience working with LLMs, agentic workflow
- Bonus: Experience with data annotation workflows and/or building internal tooling for them
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
applied AImachine learningcodingdata-centric techniquesLLMsdata annotation workflowsinternal toolingexperimental POCsworkflow efficienciesprogrammatic solutions
Soft Skills
leadershipteam managementcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycommunicationcross-functional coordinationcustomer engagementquality assuranceculture setting