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Director, Agent Research

Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/19/2025

About the Role

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.

As Director of Agents Research, you will lead teams focused on developing LLM-based autonomous systems for real-world applications. In this hands-on technical leadership role, you'll oversee research initiatives and collaborate with engineering teams to bring innovations to production.

You'll play a key role in advancing our hybrid model-in-the-loop system, which currently processes tens of millions of data points for frontier labs and industry leaders monthly, with plans to scale to billions. Your expertise will drive R&D strategy across critical areas including :

  • Agent architecture development and scaffolding
  • Data collection workflows and management
  • Performance evaluation frameworks
  • Testing environments and benchmarking

Leveraging Scale's unique position as a leader in frontier data, you'll drive the development of autonomous agents capable of handling complex tasks, ensuring our solutions meet high performance and scalability standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cutting-edge research in AI agent architectures and autonomous systems development.
  • Design scalable evaluation frameworks to measure and optimize agent performance across billions of tasks.
  • Transform research breakthroughs into production-ready ML solutions through close collaboration with engineering.
  • Drive thought leadership in AI agent research through publications and industry engagement.
  • Build and mentor a high-performing research team focused on pushing technological boundaries.
  • Qualifications

  • PhD in computer science, ML, or AI or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years leading technical research teams.
  • Strong publication record in top ML conferences.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale model training and deployment.
  • Successful track record building and managing high-performing research teams.
  • Advanced proficiency in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Jax.
  • Compensation

    Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training.

    The base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is : $268,000 - $335,000 USD.

    About Us :

    At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI.

    We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

    If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com.

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