Head of AI

Industry Artificial Intelligence | Life Sciences | Computational Biology | Web About the Opportunity tyA confidential, venture-backed company at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, and Digital Assets is seeking an exceptional AI Lead / Principal AI Technologist to architect and build its next-generation AI platform. This is a founding technical leadership opportunity for someone who thrives in high-impact, entrepreneurial environments and enjoys solving complex scientific and engineering challenges. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise with the ability to recruit, mentor, and lead a small, world-class team of AI engineers and applied researchers. This is a hands‑on leadership role, not a traditional enterprise AI management position. What You'll Do l DoDefine and execute the company's AI strategy and technical road map.Design and build a scalable AI platform supporting biomedical and scientific intellige nce.Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing AI team across multiple locati ons.Develop AI systems for:Scientific and biomedical reaso ningLiterature, patent, and clinical trial anal ysisKnowledge graphs and retrieval sys lowsInvestment and transaction intellig enceEvaluate and integrate state-of-the-art LLMs, reasoning models, reinforcement learning, and agentic AI techniq ues.Design scalable machine learning infrastructure, model training, evaluation, and deployment pipeli nes.Collaborate closely with engineering, scientific, and business teams to translate complex problems into production-ready AI soluti ons.Stay at the forefront of advances in frontier AI and identify opportunities to leverage emerging technolog What We’re Looking For g ForWe're looking for an exceptional builder with a proven track record of designing and delivering advanced AI systems. Candidates may come from backgrounds such as tionsHigh-performance comp utingComputational bi ologyBioinform aticsApplied machine lea rningDistributed sy stemsScientific comp utingTechnical sta rtupsResearch engine eringExperience at organizations such as Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta AI, Microsoft Research, NVIDIA, leading universities, or innovative AI startups is highly valued but not required. Outstanding technical achievement is more important than pediatric Preferred Qualifications ationsSignificant experience designing and deploying AI/ML systems in produ ction.Expertise with Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic AI, reinforcement learning, or model optimiz ation.Strong software engineering skills, preferably in Python and modern AI frame works.Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable AI architec tures.Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects from concept through produ ction.Experience hiring, mentoring, or leading engineering teams is highly desi rable.Excellent communication and problem-solving s #J-18808-Ljbffr