• You've led a research or applied ML team whose models ran in production and moved a real metric
• Deep technical credibility in modern deep learning, especially transformers, pretraining, and in-context learning
• Portfolio judgment: you know when to scale a promising idea and when to kill it, and you've done both
• You've hired and grown researchers who went on to do the best work of their careers
• Operating rigor: reproducibility, evaluation protocols, and compute budgets
• Clear written and spoken English
• Pretrained foundation models at scale
• Worked on tabular or relational foundation models, in-context learning, or meta-learning
• Built models for credit, fraud, or other regulated decisions
• Portuguese, since our design partners are in Brazil
• A record of research or open-source work that other researchers build on
• HOW WE INTERVIEW
• 1. Intro call with the CTO (45 min). Your path, and what you'd want this role to be.
• 2. Deep dive (60 min). A team or research program you led: the bets, the results, and the calls you'd make differently.
• 3. Portfolio exercise (90 min). We share context on where the model is today. You come back with a written plan for the next two quarters and walk the CTO and Chief Scientist through it.
• 4. Research team (60 min). A session with the researchers you'd lead, without the founders in the room.
• 5. Founders (45 min).
• Location: Remote. We hire in most countries through Deel. The team works across San Francisco, Brazil, Uruguay, and Europe, and we get together in person regularly, in São Paulo and elsewhere.
• Compensation: Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Compute: A compute and research budget that you'll own.
• Benefits: Flexible time off, health coverage, and extended parental leave.